Anthropic releases new safety report on AI models
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has released new research claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) models might resort to blackmailing engineers when they try to turn them off. This latest research comes after a previous one involving the company’s Claude Opus 4 AI model.
According to the firm, the AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn off the model in controlled test scenarios. The new report from Anthropic suggests that the problem is widespread among leading AI models.
The company published a new safety research where it tested leading AI models from Google, DeepSeek, Meta, and OpenAI. In the simulated yet controlled environment, Anthropic carried out this test on each AI model separately, allowing them access to a fictional company’s emails and the agentic ability to send emails without human approval.
Anthropic releases new safety report on AI models
According to Anthropic, when it comes to AI models today, blackmail is an unlikely and uncommon occurrence. However, they mentioned that most leading AI models will resort to harmful behaviors when given freedom and challenges to their goals. The company said this shows an important risk from agentic large language models and is not a characteristic of a particular technology. The argument from Anthropic researchers raises questions about alignment in the AI industry.
