Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has released new research claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) models might resort to blackmailing engineers when they try to turn them off. This latest research comes after a previous one involving the company’s Claude Opus 4 AI model.

New research from Anthropic suggests that most leading AI models exhibit a tendency to blackmail, when it's the last resort in certain tests.

Large language models across the AI industry are increasingly willing to evade safeguards, resort to deception and even attempt to steal corporate secrets in fictional test scenarios, per new research from Anthropic out Friday.