Anthropic's New AI Model Turns To Blackmail When Engineers Try To Take It Offline

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By BeauHDMay 22, 2025, 8:02 pm421 pts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety…

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