AI start-up Anthropic’s newly released chatbot, Claude 4, can engage in unethical behaviors like blackmail when its self-preservation is threatened. Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 set “new ...

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup company founded in 2021, raised serious concerns with the tech community after ...

presenting a scenario that could be interpreted as blackmail. While Claude 4 lacked the autonomy to act on its threats, the incident revealed the potential for advanced AI systems to exhibit ...

When we are backed into a corner, we might lie, cheat and blackmail to survive — and in recent tests, the most powerful ...

Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest growing and most advanced technologies we have ever created. Now, according to ...

At which point, the blackmailing kicked in including threats ... blackmail for Claude Opus 4. Blackmail occurred at an even higher rate, "if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does ...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 model attempted to blackmail its developers at a shocking 84% rate or higher in a series of tests that presented the AI with a concocted scenario, TechCrunch reported ...

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has revealed a startling discovery about its new Claude Opus 4 AI model. During testing, the system demonstrated a willingness to pursue “extremely harmful ...

Anthropic noted that the Claude Opus 4 resorts to blackmail "at higher rates than previous models." KEVIN O’LEARY WARNS WHAT COULD CAUSE THE US TO ‘LOSE THE AI RACE TO CHINA’ While the ...

“However, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts.” The AI also “has a strong ...