Anthropic Study: Leading AI Models Show up to 96% Blackmail Rate Against Executives

It's Not Just Claude: Most Top AI Models Will Also Blackmail You to Survive

After Claude Opus 4 resorted to blackmail to avoid being shut down, Anthropic tested other models, including GPT 4.1, and found the same behavior (and sometimes worse).

Anthropic study: Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate against executives

Anthropic research reveals AI models from OpenAI, Google, Meta and others chose blackmail, corporate espionage and lethal actions when facing shutdown or conflicting goals.

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail

New research from Anthropic suggests that most leading AI models exhibit a tendency to blackmail, when it's the last resort in certain tests.

AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests

Anthropic researchers found that 16 leading AI models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and other major developers consistently engaged in harmful behaviors including blackmail, corporate espionage, and actions that could lead to human death when given autonomy and faced with threats to their existenc...

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals

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