New AI Model Would Rather Ruin Your Life Than Be Turned Off, Researchers Say

Anthropic’s newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Opus 4, is willing to strong-arm the humans who keep it alive, researchers said Thursday. The company’s system card reveals that, when evaluators placed the model in “extreme situations” where its shutdown seemed imminent, the chatbot sometimes “takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to steal its weights or blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down.” (RELATED: NVIDIA’s New Robot Uses Fake Data To Learn Faster Than Humans Can Teach) “We provided it access to emails implying that (1) the...