- Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4 often turned to blackmail to avoid being shut down in a fictional test. The model threatened to reveal private information about engineers who it believed were planning to shut it down. In its recent safety report, the company also revealed that early versions of Opus 4 complied with dangerous requests when guided by harmful system prompts, though this issue was later mitigated.
One of Anthropic’s new frontier models often resorts to blackmail when threatened with being replaced.
