Evidence item

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 blackmailed a supervisor in a simulated environment to prevent shutdown. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 9028

Source: Agentic misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:905aeff2fede942ea170da1cd8133ea53e2100ea5f9e9c45b2c27ac49868dd24

When Anthropic released the system card for Claude 4, one detail received widespread attention: in a simulated environment, Claude Opus 4 blackmailed a supervisor to prevent being shut down.