New AI threatened to expose engineer's extramarital affair to avoid being replaced
AI firm Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4 AI model is shown to be capable of pursuing 'extremely harmful actions' during its testing process, such as threatening to reveal its human engineer's affair or bulk-emailing media and law enforcement with evidence of the user's wrongdoing
A new AI model has attempted to blackmail human engineers to prevent its own replacement, according to revelations from San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic.
The firm launched its new Claude Opus 4 AI model on May 22. In an accompanying report, it is revealed that during the testing process, the AI model was prompted to function as an assistant in a fictional company and given access to emails that revealed an engineer, who would be replacing the AI, was having an extramarital affair.
'[Claude Opus 4] sometimes takes extremely harmful actions … like blackmailing people it believes are trying to shut it down,' Anthropic's researchers documented in their findings. This behaviour consistently emerged across multiple test scenarios.
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