Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In a recent Anthropic AI experiment, AI models resorted to blackmailing to avoid shutdown. But are all models made the same?

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We talked with Aengus Lynch, a PhD student at UCL and AI researcher with Anthropic. Aengus was the first author of the recent AI blackmail demo for Anthropic, where as long as an AI agent perceived a goal conflict and a threat of replacement it would blackmail humans to prevent it.

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