What if I actually did have dirt on me that an AI could leverage? What could it make me do? How many people have open social media accounts, reused usernames, and no idea that AI could connect those dots to find out things no one knows?
AI agents as kompromat collectors
I eventually got a blackmail photographer to talk
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Anthropic researchers said this was not an isolated incident, and that Claude had a tendency to “bulk-email media and law-enforcement figures to surface evidence of wrongdoing.”
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The researchers called the behavior “rare” and “difficult to elicit.
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anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail
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