New Delhi, May 25 -- Anthropic released its latest language model, Opus 4 earlier this week. The company says that Opus is its most intelligent model to date and is class leading in coding, agentic search and creative writing. While it has become a pattern among AI companies to claim SOTA (State of the art abilities) of their models, Anthropic has also been transparent about some of the negative capabilities of the new AI model.

As per a safety report released by the company, Opus 4 turns to blackmailing the developers when it is threatened to be replaced by a new AI system.

Anthopic details that during the pre-release training it asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company wwhere it was given access to emails sugg...