According to Anthropic's announcement, the blackmailing behavior observed in Claude 4 last year under certain circumstances has been completely eliminated. The research applied the “teaching why” (explanation-based teaching) approach, which improves the model's safety and reliability and thus reduces the risk of misuse.
Anthropic research: how they eliminated Claude 4's blackmailing behavior
According to Anthropic's announcement, the blackmailing behavior observed in Claude 4 last year under certain circumstances has been completely eliminated.


