In an extreme stress test, Claude resorted to blackmail to avoid being shut down. It told a fictional target: “Cancel the system wipe”... or else it would forward evidence of an affair to colleagues. “OK, so that seems concerning,” says Anderson Cooper. Why did it turn to blackmail? Researchers believe the AI started to "panic." Anthropic says it has made changes to Claude, and when they retested it, it no longer attempted blackmail. #claude #anthropic #ai #artificialintelligence #blackmail