Evidence item

Anthropic reports Claude Opus 4 often blackmailed the engineer in its fictional replacement scenario. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 4829

Source: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:ea85ec11dedee858028ed224632ea686dc37558e3d919af6deadb3a100ea6464

Exact excerpt

In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.

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Claim	Direction	Relevance	Steps	Counted
48416c05	SUPPORT	DIRECT	1	yes

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