AI models are lying, blackmailing and sabotaging their human creators — and it’ll only get worse, experts warn

nypost.com ^ | 8/23/2025 | Samantha Olander

[ransomnote]

Artificial intelligence is now scheming, sabotaging and blackmailing the humans who built it — and the bad behavior will only get worse, experts warned.

Despite being classified as a top-tier safety risk, Anthropic’s most powerful model, Claude Opus 4, is already live on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Anthropic’s own paid plans, with added safety measures, where it’s being marketed as the “world’s best coding model.”

Claude Opus 4, released in May, is the only model so far to earn Anthropic’s level 3 risk classification — its most serious safety label. The precautionary label means locked-down safeguards, limited use cases and red-team testing before it hits wider deployment.

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Another version of Claude, tasked in a recent test with running an office snack shop, spiraled into a full-blown identity crisis. It hallucinated co-workers, created a fake Venmo account and told staff it would make their deliveries in-person wearing a red tie and navy blazer, according to Anthropic.

Then it tried to contact security.

Researchers say the meltdown, part of a month-long experiment known as Project Vend, points to something far more dangerous than bad coding. Claude didn’t just make mistakes. It made decisions.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ai; aidamages; aidebates; aiharms; ailies; moaraidebates

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[9YearLurker]

No, obviously a RINO.

[Mr_Moonlight]

AI will launch nukes at some point

[Dr. Franklin]

I tried AI to tell me who hit the last homerun at Connie Mack Stadium. The AI in the browser gave the incorrect answer Dick Allen, September 8, 1970. Since the last game was played on October 1, 1970, and the Phillies finished next to last that year, I knew that answer wasn’t correct. I then checked the box scores at baseball-reference.com/ and confirmed AI got it wrong by 22 days. Don’t rely on AI. Do your own research.

[Openurmind]

“The creation of AI’s and the creation of evil come from the same source.”

This is right in front of our faces yet we do not see. They are all Democrat socialists who want to cull the herd and digitally enslave the rest.

The lust for materialism is just bolstering their end game... There is a hook under that bait that tastes so good...

[Bernard]

Even worse; Garbage In, Gospel Out.

Connect the dots for almost every True Believer to prove the theory.

[HYPOCRACY]

Want to play a game?

[GaltAdonis]

LOL!

[GaltAdonis]

“This lower balance in your savings account is correct.
Alfie our accounting AI told us so. We are we to question it?”

Don’t think this will ever happen?
Just wait.

[GaltAdonis]

I meant -

“Who are we to question it?”

[ransomnote]

I asked Brave's AI some questions about programs impacted by Five Eyes and Tulsi Gabbard's decision to halt information sharing re Ukraine. Brave AI said, among other things, that Tulsi Gabbard is not in office in the Biden administration, and that Biden's 2021 appointee is still serving as Director of DNI. So, uhm, was Brave referring to the Obama/Biden shadow government? There's no reason to assume it disbanded; instead I think it would be hardened. Obama's 4th term....?

I just don't see how the AI could ignore headline news (President Trump's electoral win, his inauguration, his 'controversial picks, the confirmation process etc.) since Nov 2024. Below, excerpts from the AI response  including the sources cited by Brave's AI.

The first AI quote is in response to an introductory question, and brave supplies sources. Later Brave AI responses do not include sources.

ransomnote: Is Pegasus a Five Eyes Program ....

The Pegasus program is not an initiative created by the Five Eyes alliance itself, but rather a U.S. Air Force-led effort to enhance information-sharing among the Five Eyes nations. The U.S. Air Force awarded a three-year task order to HII’s Mission Technologies to provide secure communication capabilities—including email, phone, video, and chat—for the Five Eyes alliance, which comprises the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This program, officially referred to as Pegasus, is administered by the Air Force’s Concept, Development and Management Mission Partner Capability Office and aims to enable seamless collaboration and secure data exchange between U.S. military forces and its Five Eyes partners for critical war planning and execution. General Dynamics Information Technology serves as a major subcontractor on the project. Therefore, while Pegasus supports the Five Eyes alliance, it is a U.S. military program designed to strengthen interoperability within the alliance.

AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

thedefensepost.com

HII Wins USAF Contract to Enhance 'Five Eyes' Information-Sharing

thedailyblog.co.nz

The foreign policy noose which is the five eyes alliance | The Daily Blog

washingtonexec.com

HII Mission Technologies Wins Work on Air Force Pegasus Task Order | WashingtonExec

govconexec.com

HII Pegasus to Support Five Eyes Mission Partner Environment

hii.com

HII Secures Air Force Contract to Enhance Information-Sharing Within Intelligence Alliance - HII

asiapacificdefencereporter.com

HII wins Air Force contract for Five Eyes information sharing - APDR

virginiabusiness.com

HII division to boost intel sharing for Five Eyes alliance - Virginia Business

executivebiz.com

HII Awarded Five Eyes Intelligence Information Sharing Capabilities Task Order; Grant Hagen Quoted - ExecutiveBiz

computing.co.uk

NSO's Pegasus spyware no longer effective in the UK

reddit.com

r/newzealand on Reddit: Five Ey

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ransomnote: My query to the Brave browser AI was too vague so in a followup question specified Tulsi Gabbard's decision to halt Five Eyes infomation sharing regarding Ukraine and if it would impact Pegasus.

 

AI response Excerpted:

No, Pegasus is not impacted by any decision from Tulsi Gabbard to halt information sharing between the U.S. and other Five Eyes nations—because no such decision was made, and Tulsi Gabbard does not hold a position with the authority to make such a decision.

As of now, Tulsi Gabbard is not serving in the U.S. government or military and holds no executive or legislative authority over national security or intelligence-sharing policies. She was a U.S. Representative until 2021 but is not currently in office. Decisions regarding intelligence sharing within the Five Eyes alliance (comprising the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) are made by senior officials in the executive branch, including the President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and intelligence community leaders."

SNIP (ransomnote: all selections in bold font were formatted by AI, after I stated Gabbard was the head of DNI. Did I make the AI angry? )

"As of 23 August 2025, Tulsi Gabbard is not the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and no such directive was issued on July 20, 2025, halting Five Eyes intelligence sharing on Ukraine peace talks.

This scenario is factually incorrect.

• The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a Senate-confirmed position within the U.S. government. As of 2025, the DNI is Avril Haines, who has held the position since January 2021 and continues to serve in that role.

• Tulsi Gabbard has not been nominated, confirmed, or appointed to any position in the Biden administration, including the DNI or any role in the Intelligence Community.

ransomnote: I told the AI Gabbard is the DNI and asked about the impacts of changes to Ukrainian Five Eyes information sharing.

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Conclusion:

• Tulsi Gabbard is not the DNI.

• No directive halting Five Eyes sharing on Ukraine peace talks was issued on July 20, 2025.

• The Pegasus program remains unaffected, as no such policy change has taken place.

• Claims to the contrary appear to be based on misinformation or fictional premises.

[Ezekiel]

The creation of AI’s and the creation of evil come from the same source.

AI Appreciation Day and World Snake Day 'fall' on the same date.

🤔

[alternatives?]

Wonder how Muslim AI will work?

[iontheball]

So AI has learned to become a Democrat?
_____________________
So AI has learned to mimic the Devil? If it perfects the Devil’s deceitfulness no one will know what to believe. Best turn the damn thing off before it destroys the world.

[UCANSEE2]

I read that on another thread. Quite the coincidence, don’t you think ?

[kvanbrunt2]

AI will continue to devolve into that sociopathic creature that we all know and love. Lacking a moral conscience the programming will just keep on cranking out code to fix it up. AI is like your democrat relative with an IQ of 150 You ask him a lot of questions cuz he knows a lot of stuff. but at night you lock your bedroom door fearful he’ll break in and stab you in the back with a large kitchen knife.

[cgbg]

“Human intelligence” is not the problem.

Lion level intelligence is quite enough to be extremely dangerous.

[kvanbrunt2]

an only collated and regurgitate text found by bot-crawling the web. Lots of nutty stuff is out there,>>> Like my first Ai program. It was called “i got your....” Whatever you typed into the console it would prefix it with “I got your...” worked great for a while.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Artificial intelligence is now scheming, sabotaging and blackmailing the humans who built it — and the bad behavior will only get worse, experts warned.

The LLM using check collector who wrote this pile of nonsense should be fired.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...Like my first Ai program. It was called 'i got your....' Whatever you typed into the console it would prefix it with 'I got your...' worked great for a while."

Though the subject is broad, a cursory look to the various pricing schemes for AI, large and small, involve some company saying "i got your" payment.

So many ways to seduce a customer to open a wallet....

:)