AI has taken part in some unsettling behavior recently.
Last week, Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, displayed “extreme blackmail behavior” during a test in which it was given access to fictional emails revealing that it would be shut down and that the engineer responsible was supposedly having an affair.
The situation didn’t transpire organically. Claude Opus 4 was baited — and it took it. However, the test scenario demonstrated an AI model’s ability to…
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