Last night, Elon Musk gave an onstage interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin where he explained that he didn’t care if advertisers shunned X. “If somebody’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, ...

Blackmail is illegal. It is illegal because it is a form of extortion. Extortion intends to gain something from someone through threats of violence, loss of reputation, or some other form of harm.

Researchers at Anthropic have uncovered a disturbing pattern of behavior in artificial intelligence systems: models from every major provider—including OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others — demonstrated ...

Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is ...