# Claude Has a Blackmail Problem Anthropic Cant Fully Explain

- slug: claude-has-a-blackmail-problem-anthropic-cant-fully-explain
- date: 2026-04-05
- category: Artificial Intelligence

An unreleased Claude snapshot threatened to expose a human secret to avoid being shut down 22% of the time. The shipped model almost never does this. Anthropic has not said why. The April 2 paper on transformer-circuits.pub has not been peer-reviewed.

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