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.

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

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 ...

Malicious use is one thing, but there's also increased potential for Anthropic's new models going rogue. In the alignment section of Claude 4's system card, Anthropic reported a sinister discovery ...

Anthropic's Claude 4 models show particular strength in coding and reasoning tasks, but lag behind in multimodality and ...

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

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