The article doesn't really address the fact that Claude is only mimicking behaviors in its training data set.
Still, it's a great highlight of how quickly dystopian fiction in a training data set can become dystopian reality when AI agents are given too much access.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/
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