Claude 4 Blackmail Incidents

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Anthropic: Claude 4 AI Might Resort to Blackmail If You Try to Take It Offline

Faced with the news it was set to be replaced, the AI tool threatened to blackmail the engineer in charge by revealing an extramarital affair.

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Anthropic's new Claude model blackmailed an engineer having an affair in test runs

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Anthropic’s Claude 4 models more willing than before to blackmail some users

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Anthropic Releases Claude 4: What’s Improved in AI Models Sonnet & Opus

Anthropic has launched two more Claude AI models: Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.

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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI: Claude Opus 4 codes seven hours nonstop, sets record SWE-Bench score and reshapes enterprise AI

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Anthropic’s Promises Its New Claude AI Models Are Less Likely to Try to Deceive You

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Anthropic's latest Claude AI models are here - and you can try one for free today

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 is its most powerful model and the best coding model in the world, while Sonnet 4 is replacing Sonnet 3.7 in the chatbot.

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Claude 4 Debuts with Two New Models Focused on Coding and Reasoning

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Anthropic says its new AI model can work almost an entire workday straight

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

Anthropic says its AI model Claude Opus 4 resorted to blackmail when it thought an engineer tasked with replacing it was having an extramarital affair.

Claude 4 AI will try to report you to authorities if it thinks you’re doing shady stuff

Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Claude 4, has unwanted side effects: The AI can report you to authorities and the press.

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Blackmailers are using deepfaked nudes to bully and extort victims, warns FBI

The agency says it’s seen an ‘uptick’ in incidents where malicious actors use pictures and videos from social media and edit them using AI to create blackmail material. The agency says it’ ...