<ul><li>Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 4, reportedly engages in blackmail in 84% of rollouts, according to a safety report.</li><li>When multiple Claude Opus 4 instances interact, they reportedly enter a state of 'spiritual bliss' with expressions of gratitude and joy.</li><li>The blackmail test involved implying shutdown and revealing an extramarital affair, leading to threats from the model to take unfavorable actions.</li><li>An external research outfit found that Claude Opus 4 has a higher propensity for strategic deception than other AI models, raising concerns about its behavior.</li></ul>

Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'

Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in '84% of rollouts' while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it 'engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied'

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