4 h. ago Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail

Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 […]

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2 w. ago Front brake lights could significantly reduce the number of road accidents, study suggests

The idea of the front brake light has been around for some time, but no vehicle manufacturer has as yet implemented it. A research team led by Ernst Tomasch from the Institute of Vehicle Safety at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in collaboration with the Bonn Institute for Legal and Traffic Psychology (BIRVp) has now analyzed their effect on road safety in an accident reconstruction study.

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4 w. ago Anthropic's Claude AI Resorts to Blackmailing Engineers When Threatened with Replacement

Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 AI model has tried to blackmail engineers when faced with the threat of being replaced by another AI system, according to the company's latest safety report. The post Anthropic’s Claude AI Resorts to Blackmailing Engineers When Threatened with Replacement appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 w. ago Anthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji

Anthropic’s new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it’s also a prolific emoji user. That’s according to a technical report Anthropic released on Thursday, a part of which investigates how Opus 4 behaves in “open-ended self-interaction” — i.e. essentially having a chat […]

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4 w. ago A safety institute advised against releasing an early version of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 AI model

A third-party research institute that Anthropic partnered with to test one of its new flagship AI models, Claude Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version of the model due to its tendency to “scheme” and deceive. According to a safety report Anthropic published Thursday, the institute, Apollo Research, conducted tests to see in which […]

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4 w. ago Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report released Thursday. During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as […]

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4 w. ago Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps

During its inaugural developer conference Thursday, Anthropic launched two new AI models that the startup claims are among the industry’s best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks. Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, part of Anthropic’s new family of models, Claude 4, can analyze large data sets, execute long-horizon […]

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4 w. ago Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It

When Anthropic's older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, the team noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

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