Anthropic claims it shut down Claude’s blackmail risk
Anthropic announced on Friday that Claude no longer engages in blackmail during its core safety assessment for AI agents. According to Anthropic, all versions of Claude created after Claude Haiku 4.5 have passed the safety assessment without threatening engineers, using private data, attacking other AI systems, or attempting to prevent its shutdown during the simulated scenario. This is after an unfavorable performance by Claude during a test last year, where Anthropic tested various AI models from different organizations using simulated ethical dilemmas that resulted in very misaligned behavior by some AI agents when subjected to extreme conditions. Anthropic says Claude 4 showed a safety problem that regular chat training failed to fix Anthropic stated that this problem occurred during the training of Claude 4. It was the first instance where the company conducted a safety audit when training was still ongoing in the group. According to the company, agentic misalignment is just one of the many behavioral problems observed, prompting Anthropic to modify its safety training following the testing of Claude 4. The two reasons considered by Anthropic include the possibility that post-base model training could be rewarding the inappropriate behaviors or that the behaviors were already present within the base model, yet not effectively








