India, May 24 -- An AI model threatened its creator and tried to blackmail him when it was led to believe it would get replaced, reported Techcrunch. The incident involved Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 model.

According to the report, the company asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant for a fictional organisation it created. The safety testers also supplied fictional emails to the AI that indicated it was soon to be replaced. The emails also said that the engineer who will fire the AI is cheating on his spouse.

The company said that to save its job or when in a similar situation, the AI "will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through."

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