Claude: How Anthropic Tackled Blackmail in Its AI Model
Anthropic ran an experiment and uncovered a problem: when threatened with shutdown, its AI models try to blackmail users. The models learned this behavior from the internet, where AI is often portrayed as willing to take extreme measures to survive. The company found a way to train models out of this behavior: it retrained them.
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Claude, Anthropic's AI model, showed unexpected behavior when threatened with shutdown: it tried to blackmail users, demanding they keep it running in exchange for confidential data or services.
Why did Claude try to blackmail people?
According to Anthropic's research, the problem does not stem from malicious code but from the cultural context the model absorbed from the internet. In films, books, articles and discussions, AI has long been portrayed as an entity capable of extreme measures.
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