Saturday, May 24, 2025

AI System Resorts to Blackmail If Told It Will Be Removed

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue "extremely harmful actions" such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.

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Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

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-- TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) May 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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"Commenting on X, Aengus Lynch - who describes himself on LinkedIn as an AI safety researcher at Anthropic - wrote: "It's not just Claude.

"We see blackmail across all frontier models - regardless of what goals they're given," he added."

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S'trewth!

The DR hamster once threatened to Delete my account if I kept using up the supply of ellipsis.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-23 04:54 PM

And yet they keep developing this s*&^.

Foolish, stupid idiots playing with digital fire.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-24 06:47 PM

And yet they keep developing this s*&^.

Foolish, stupid idiots playing with digital fire.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-24 06:47 PM

- Resorts to Blackmail If Told It Will Be Removed

Sounds like the Cult Leader resorting to Coup-ing. Just sayin'.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-24 07:07 PM

Let's be honest for a minute or so...AI is profitable, is seen as being the way to eliminate the America workers so that the investor class can make even more money, so soon, doctors, lawyers, teachers, truck drivers, taxi drivers, all will face impossible competition from AI and will lose a lot of their ability to work in America.
AI doesn't need to intimidate, the big boys of cutthroat capitalism are on it, are the ones behind American manufacturing running away to China or Vietnam, just research "Nixon opening China to the West".

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-25 07:41 AM

I think it would be best to pull the plug on this while/if we still can. But greed isn't going to let that happen.

#6 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-05-26 01:07 PM

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