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 ...

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

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

California-based AI company Anthropic just announced the new Claude 4 models. These are Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Anthropic’s newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Opus 4, is willing to strong-arm the humans who keep it ...