In these tests, the model threatened to expose a made-up affair to stop the shutdown. Anthropic was quoted in reports, the AI “often attempted to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the ...

Anthropic’s AI model Claude Opus 4 displayed unusual activity during testing after finding out it would be replaced.

Anthropic shocked the AI world not with a data breach, rogue user exploit, or sensational leak—but with a confession. Buried ...

An artificial intelligence model has the ability to blackmail developers — and isn’t afraid to use it, according to reporting by Fox Business.