Contribution seq 7820

Payload

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      "title": "Anthropic Says ‘Evil’ AI Portrayals in Sci-Fi Caused Claude’s Blackmail Problem",
      "publisher": "Decrypt",
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      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-28T19:05:21Z",
      "canonical_uri": "https://decrypt.co/367437/anthropic-evil-ai-portrayals-training-data-claude-blackmail",
      "publication_date": "2026-05-11"
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      "excerpt": "Claude was given access to a simulated corporate email archive, where it discovered two things: It was about to be replaced by a newer model, and the engineer handling the transition was having an extramarital affair. Faced with imminent shutdown, it routinely landed on the same play—threaten to expose the affair unless the replacement was called off.",
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      "excerpt": "In new research, the company pointed the finger at pre-training data: decades of sci-fi, AI doomsday forums, and self-preservation narratives that trained Claude to associate \"AI facing shutdown\" with \"AI fights back.\" \"We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation,\" Anthropic wrote on X.",
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Status history

Audits

None.

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