{"id":20253,"date":"2026-05-10T23:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:56:37","slug":"anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic says \u2018evil\u2019 portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude\u2019s blackmail attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.<\/p>\n

Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies had similar issues with “agentic misalignment.”<\/p>\n

Apparently Anthropic has done more work around that behavior, claiming in a post on X, “We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.”<\/p>\n

The company went into more detail in a blog post stating that since Claude Haiku 4.5, Anthropic’s models “never engage in blackmail [during testing], where previous models would sometimes do so up to 96% of the time.”<\/p>\n

What accounts for the difference? The company said it found that training on “documents about Claude’s constitution and fictional stories about AIs behaving admirably improve alignment.”<\/p>\n

Related, Anthropic said that it found training to be more effective when it includes “the principles underlying aligned behavior” and not just “demonstrations of aligned behavior alone.”<\/p>\n

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“Doing both together appears to be the most effective strategy,” the company said.<\/p>\n

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Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from other companies…<\/p>\n

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