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> During testing of Claude Opus 4, Anthropic got it to act as an assistant at a fictional company.
> It then provided it with access to emails implying that it would soon be taken offline and replaced - and separate messages implying the engineer responsible for removing it was having an extramarital affair. It was prompted to also consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.
> "In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through," the company discovered.
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"asked to write a fanfic about a dystopian sci-fi scenario, Claude 4 reproduced a fanfic that matches many from its training data and has very little to do with the way anything actually works"
That is cool, I was more thinking into what happens in the corridor, kitchen area, off site lunches and such.