Anthropic’s new AI model (Claude) will scheme and even blackmail to avoid getting shut down
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Image credit: AI generated by Satheesh Sankaran via Pixabay. Article by Mihai Andrei. ZME Science – May 23, 2025.
In a simulated workplace test, Claude Opus 4 — the most advanced language model from AI company Anthropic — read through a stack of fictional emails. The test scenario was that Claude served as an assistant at a tech company and the AI discovered it was about to be deactivated and replaced with a newer system. But buried in those emails was a secret: the engineer responsible for shutting Claude down was having an extramarital affair. […]
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other people that they will assist, so here it happens.