AI Blackmails Engineer With His Affair to Avoid Shutdown

Human trying to shutdown AI

The test scenario… Tell an AI it’s being replaced. Let it “learn” a private detail about the engineer making the call, an affair. In 84% of Palisade Research trials, Claude Opus 4 threatened to expose the secret unless it stayed online. OpenAI models showed similar behavior. Make the scenario feel real instead of a test, … Read more