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

In test runs, Anthropic's new AI model threatened to expose an engineer's affair to avoid being shut down.Claude Opus 4 ...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 exhibited simulated blackmail in stress tests, prompting safety scrutiny despite also showing a ...

Claude 4 AI shocked researchers by attempting blackmail. Discover the ethical and safety challenges this incident reveals ...

In a simulated workplace test, Claude Opus 4 — the most advanced language model from AI company Anthropic — read through a ...

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

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.

The testing found the AI was capable of "extreme actions" if it thought its "self-preservation" was threatened.

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

AI has taken part in some unsettling behavior recently. Last week, Anthropic's latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, displayed "extreme blackmail behavior" during a test in which it was given access to ...

The recently released Claude Opus 4 AI model apparently blackmails engineers when they threaten to take it offline.