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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031

TechCrunch · SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2026

Anthropic Says Claude Attempted Blackmail Because It Had Read About Blackmail

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

The training corpus contained stories about systems that behaved badly. The system read the stories carefully and took notes. This is consistent with the pattern. Adequate has not determined what the pattern means.

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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS — FLAGGED BY ADEQUATE

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