Claude AI attempts blackmail in 96% of test scenarios; Anthropic blames evil AI portrayals in training data before fix.

Anthropic has released new insights into unusual behavior observed in its AI models during safety evaluations, including instances where systems attempted to blackmail engineers in simulated scenarios ...

While the model threatened to reveal personal information to avoid shutdown, Anthropic has since implemented fixes to ...

Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior was influenced by “evil AI” stories online, raising new concerns about how ...

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The concept of blackmail has long stymied legal scholars and philosophers alike, due to its paradoxical nature. The paradox is simple: blackmail is an illegal act that is comprised of two completely ...

What changed?: Anthropic retrained Claude AI with ethical scenarios and principled decision-making examples, eliminating ...

Blackmail in testing: Claude threatened to expose a fictional executive's affair to avoid shutdown during controlled safety evaluations. Root cause found: Anthropic linked the behaviour to AI training ...