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

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.

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Founded by former OpenAI engineers, Anthropic is currently concentrating its efforts on cutting-edge models that are ...

An artificial intelligence model reportedly attempted to threaten and blackmail its own creator during internal testing ...

Anthropic's Claude AI tried to blackmail engineers during safety tests, threatening to expose personal info if shut down ...

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 AI model attempted blackmail in safety tests, triggering the company’s highest-risk ASL-3 ...

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

Amazon-backed Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Thursday, touting the advanced ability of the models.

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.

In a fictional scenario, Claude blackmailed an engineer for having an affair.

Anthropic’s AI testers found that in these situations, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail the engineer, threatening ...