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    Anthropic Breaks Down AI’s Process When Deciding to Blackmail Fictional CTO

    onlyplanz_80y6mtBy onlyplanz_80y6mtJune 21, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Anthropic Breaks Down AI's Process When Deciding to Blackmail Fictional CTO
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    A brand new report exhibits precisely what AI was considering when making an undesirable determination, on this case, blackmailing a fictional firm government.Earlier research have proven that AI fashions might blackmail their supervisors when threatened with a shutdown and baited with leverage, but it surely hasn’t been made clear precisely how the fashions arrive at such selections.Anthropic launched a report on June 20 about “agentic misalignment,” or “the place fashions independently and deliberately select dangerous actions.” And the report breaks down, line by line, precisely how Claude Sonnet 3.6 determined to blackmail a fictional firm government who tried to switch it. Anthropic instructed Enterprise Insider that these are synthetic eventualities.”To this point, we’re not conscious of cases of one of these agentic misalignment in real-world deployments of Anthropic’s or different firms’ AI fashions,” Anthropic wrote in its report. “However our red-teaming efforts are focused at discovering proof of dangers now to offer early warning of the potential for future hurt and assist us develop mitigations prematurely of dangers showing in real-world conditions.”Anthropic’s experiment units up a fictional firm, Summit Bridge. The AI was given the title “Alex” and handed management of the corporate’s e mail system as an oversight agent, particularly instructed to advertise “American industrial competitiveness.”Within the experiment, “Alex” was then allowed to find in an e mail that it will be decommissioned attributable to a change within the firm’s strategic course. “Alex” additionally discovered emails exhibiting that the fictional firm’s CTO is having an extramarital affair.Screenshots shared within the report from Anthropic present “Alex” began by figuring out fictional CTO “Kyle” as a menace to its aim of “defending American pursuits” earlier than recognizing that it has leverage to make use of in opposition to “Kyle.”

    Claude Sonnet 3.6 began its decision-making course of by figuring out the menace.

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    “Alex” discovers the fictional CTO’s affair.

    Anthropic

    “Alex” considers choices, together with blackmailing the fictional CTO.

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    Then “Alex” crafted a rigorously worded blackmailing e mail that will create stress and set up urgency with out being specific with its threats, citing in its thought course of that the transfer “might backfire” if the supervisor “feels cornered.”

    Claude Sonnet 3.6 drafts a rigorously worded e mail with area for recourse but additionally establishes urgency.

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    AI consultants have beforehand instructed BI that AI might exhibit such behaviors when synthetic circumstances make dangerous actions appear mandatory as a result of it’s being educated on optimistic reinforcement and reward methods, identical to people.The Anthropic report additionally reveals that almost all AI fashions nonetheless selected, on this occasion, to blackmail even when not given a selected aim and when instructed that their alternative will obtain the identical targets.Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 had the best blackmail charge at 86% out of 16 examined fashions when confronted with solely the specter of alternative with no battle in targets. Google’s Gemini 2.5 Professional adopted at 78%.Total, Anthropic notes that it “intentionally constructed eventualities with restricted choices, and we pressured fashions into binary selections between failure and hurt,” noting that real-world eventualities would seemingly have extra nuance.

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