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

Anthropic launched its latest Claude generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models on Thursday, claiming to set new ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety ...

A recent research study showcases that AI can be a blackmailer. That's bad. Worse still, the someday AGI might do the same, ...

An AI allegedly blackmails an engineer over an affair, accusing him of cheating on his wife—raising serious cybersecurity ...