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AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 (PDF) https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

"lots of discussion of Claude blackmailing....." https://x.com/aengus_lynch1/status/1925746802147426450

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