Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Claude 4, has unwanted side effects: The AI can report you to authorities and the press.

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

Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.

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

In a simulated workplace test, Claude Opus 4 — the most advanced language model from AI company Anthropic — read through a ...

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 ...

In a fictional scenario, the model was willing to expose that the engineer seeking to replace it was having an affair.

Anthropic's new model might also report users to authorities and the press if it senses "egregious wrongdoing." ...

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

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

This development, detailed in a recently published safety report, have led Anthropic to classify Claude Opus 4 as an ‘ASL-3’ ...

A third-party research institute Anthropic partnered with to test Claude Opus 4 recommended against deploying an early ...