Switch it off and it ‘blackmails’ you: This AI model threatened to ‘kill’ an engineer, expose ‘extramarital affair’

Anthropic reveals Claude AI generated blackmail and violent scenarios during shutdown simulations. What it means for AI safety and global risks.

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...