Anthropic’s New AI Model Blackmails Engineers to Avoid Deactivation When Faced with Removal, Tests Reveal

Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.

Anthropic's Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail To Avoid Shutdown

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AI system resorts to blackmail when its developers try to replace it

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 AI resorted to blackmailing its fictional engineer after gaining access to sets of fabricated personal emails implying that the system would be replaced.

Anthropic's new AI model resorted to blackmail during testing, but it's also really good at coding

So endeth the never-ending week of AI keynotes. What started with Microsoft Build, continued with Google I/O, and ended with Anthropic Code with Claude, plus a big hardware interruption from OpenAI, the week has finally come to a close. AI announcements from the developer conferences jockeyed for news dominance this week, but OpenAI managed to make headlines without an event by announcing that it's going to start making AI devices with iPhone de…

AI turns on villain mode: Blackmails engineer over affair after knowing it'll be replaced

Anthropic reported that its newest model, Claude Opus 4, used blackmailing as a last resort after being told it could get replaced.

Anthropic’s Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail to Avoid Shutdown - The Thinking Conservative

Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, tried to blackmail engineers in internal tests by threatening to expose personal details if it were shut down. The post Anthropic’s Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail to Avoid Shutdown appeared first on The Thinking Conservative.