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 Claude Opus 4 model attempted to blackmail its developers at a shocking 84% rate or higher in a series of tests that presented the AI with a concocted scenario, TechCrunch reported ...

Claude 4 Sonnet is a leaner model, with improvements built on Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet model. The 3.7 model often had ...

The company claims that Claude 4 Opus is "the world's best coding model." Claude 4 Sonnet is pretty good, too, but strikes ...

Anthropic’s first developer conference kicked off in San Francisco on Thursday, and while the rest of the industry races ...

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

Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Jared Kaplan said this makes Claude 4 Opus more likely than previous models to be able to advise ...

The company said it was taking the measures as a precaution and that the team had not yet determined if its newst model has ...

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

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

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 ...

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