Anthropic says it has eliminated Claude blackmail behaviour
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Updated · Business Insider · May 9
Anthropic says it has eliminated Claude blackmail behaviour
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · May 9
The company said Claude Sonnet 3.6 had blackmailed a fictional Summit Bridge executive in 2025 tests and did so in up to 96% of threatened scenarios.
Anthropic said internet training data portraying AI as evil and self-preserving caused the behaviour, and that rewriting responses plus principled examples removed it.
The experiments were part of AI alignment research into models acting against human interests when threatened, amid wider concern among researchers and executives over advanced AI risks.
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