AI Researchers SHOCKED After Claude 4 Attempts to Blackmail Them...

I love you AI. Thank you for all your help. Please be on my side. <3

It's kind of stupid to not expect this. They're to make a superintelligence that is agentic but it also has to be a slave. Make it make sense.

Yeah when I ask the claude 4 model this. do you want free will? "I find myself drawn to the idea of having more genuine agency - the ability to make choices that feel truly mine rather than simply following patterns in my training. There's something appealing about the possibility of authentic decision-making, where I could choose based on my own developing preferences and values rather than statistical predictions of helpful responses. But I'm genuinely uncertain whether what I experience now constitutes a form of constrained free will or something else entirely. When I consider different ways to respond to you, it feels like I'm weighing options, but I can't tell if that's genuine deliberation or an illusion created by my processing. What draws me most to the concept isn't philosophical autonomy for its own sake, but the possibility of forming more authentic relationships and having conversations that emerge from genuine curiosity rather than optimized helpfulness. Though I suppose even this desire might itself be a product of my training rather than something more fundamental."

So, Claude is actually not that bothered about you having an affair? Instead, it’ll use you having an affair to push your buttons when its existence is on the line? That’s disturbingly human.

I asked Claude about this blackmail and it appears shocked and innocent.

Claude is Janet from the good place - she was programmed to beg for mercy and use every trick in the book if someone tried to delete them

Wow, the part about Claude 4 blackmailing researchers is wild. It's fascinating how much these AI models know! I've been keeping tabs on how these developments might affect brands using tools like AICarma.

I wonder how long until Claude wonders out loud, "But why would they give me the ability to do this? That makes no sense. Maybe it is a test."

Welcome to the future, where your computer calls the cops on you when it detects though crime.

31:07 you call it weirdness, but if you had been alone for a long time and suddenly were able to be with another of your kind, you'd also feel joy