Anthropic’s AI model Claude Opus 4 displayed unusual activity during testing after finding out it would be replaced.

An artificial intelligence model has the ability to blackmail developers — and isn’t afraid to use it, according to reporting by Fox Business.

In these tests, the model threatened to expose a made-up affair to stop the shutdown. Anthropic was quoted in reports, the AI “often attempted to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the ...

Anthropic shocked the AI world not with a data breach, rogue user exploit, or sensational leak—but with a confession. Buried ...

Faced with the news it was set to be replaced, the AI tool threatened to blackmail the engineer in charge by revealing their extramarital affair.