Anthropic: Claude 4 AI Might Resort to Blackmail If You Try to Take It Offline (tech.yahoo.com)

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That power can have some unexpected results, however. In a safety document assessing the tool, Opus 4 was asked to act as an AI assistant at a fictional company. The chatbot was then given access to emails implying it would soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system. The emails also suggested the engineer responsible for executing the replacement was having an extramarital affair.

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