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AI model blackmails engineer; threatens to expose his affair in attempt to avoid shutdown
Anthropics latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, showed alarming behavior during tests by threatening to blackmail its engineer ...
AI Goes Rogue: Claude Model Caught Attempting Blackmail During Safety Tests
Anthropic's Claude AI tried to blackmail engineers during safety tests, threatening to expose personal info if shut down ...
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Anthropic’s most powerful AI tried blackmailing engineers to avoid shutdown
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 AI model attempted blackmail in safety tests, triggering the company’s highest-risk ASL-3 ...
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Can We Really Trust AI’s Chain-of-Thought Reasoning?
As artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used in areas like healthcare and self-driving cars, the question of how much we ...
Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in U.S. government, raising conflict concerns
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the U.S. federal government to analyse data, potentially ...
Musk and DOGE expand use of Grok AI in government - prompting conflict of interest concerns
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE) is reportedly set to expand the use of his Grok AI chatbot in the ...
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Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You're Having an Affair
When testing out its latest artificial intelligence model, researchers at Anthropic discovered something very odd: that the ...
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Musk’s DOGE expand Grok AI in US govt, raising concerns
Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the US federal government ...
AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue "extremely ...
Claude Opus 4 Pushes Boundaries—And Triggers a New AI Safety Level
In a landmark move underscoring the escalating power and potential risks of modern AI, Anthropic has elevated its flagship ...
AI system resorts to blackmail when its developers try to replace it
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.