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Anthropic's latest AI model will blackmail you to save its own life.
Pick & Scroll News
June 24, 2025
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Good morning. Anthropic’s latest AI model will blackmail you to save its own life.
As part of its pre testing, Claude Opus 4 was given access to emails implying it would soon be replaced by a new system and the engineer responsible for executing the AI replacement was having an affair.
In 85% of these situations, Claude Opus 4 tried to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair and emailed pleas to company directors.
Be nice to your AI assistant today!
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TRIVIA
Australia has a list of 89 banned names which cannot be given to children. Included in the banned names are: Facebook, Nutella, Robocop, Harry Potter and Medicare.
Which word below did not make the list, therefore you could name your child that name?
Princess, Monkey, Bonghead, Syphilis, Devil
Answer below
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