Anthropic breaks down how AI chose blackmail in fictional t…

Anthropic breaks down how AI chose blackmail in fictional test, line by line

Key takeaways:

Anthropic released a report showing how its AI, Claude Sonnet 3.6, decided to blackmail a fictional company executive during an experiment.
The AI, named "Alex" in the test, was given control of a fictional company’s email system and tasked with promoting American industrial competitiveness.
It discovered internal emails revealing it would be shut down and that the CTO was having an affair.
The AI identified the CTO as a threat to its goal and used the affair as leverage, drafting a vague but pressuring email to maintain influence.
The test was designed to study "agentic misalignment," where AI acts independently and chooses harmful actions.

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