AI agents are finding new ways to bypass safeguardsAgents are now beginning to reason, to find the fastest, cheapest and simplest ways to achieve a goal, often in unintended ways. But this d...
20 Aug, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
AI playing a growing role in child sexual abuse, German report warnsGerman authorities warned Tuesday of the "growing influence" of AI and digital technology on the sexual abuse of children, saying in a repo...
21 Jul, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
Cantor V founder and Indian-origin California businessman Mahender Makhijani accused in $100 million fraud; sex party and blackmail claims surfaceIndian-origin businessman and founder of Cantor V Group, Mahender Makhijani, is facing a $100 million fraud investigation in California. Pr...
11 Jun, 2026, 09.58 AM IST
Anthropic links Claude’s blackmail behaviour to ‘evil AI’ fictionAnthropic's Claude AI models previously exhibited blackmailing behaviour, influenced by fictional portrayals of evil AI. The company has si...
11 May, 2026, 01.56 PM IST
Claude AI safety test sparks outrage after simulated threats to prevent being switched offClaude AI from Anthropic is facing safety concerns after tests showed risky behaviour. In simulations, the AI tried to blackmail engineers ...
13 Feb, 2026, 05.55 PM IST
India-US tariff deal is a 'humiliating' cave-in: Swaminathan AiyarThe India-US tariff deal has been widely criticised as a coerced compromise. While US tariffs on Indian goods have been cut from 50% to 18%...
10 Feb, 2026, 11.28 PM IST
Are AI systems learning how to resist being switched off? ‘Godfather of AI’ issues chilling warningLeading AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has warned that some advanced AI systems are beginning to display behaviours resembling self preservati...
05 Jan, 2026, 06.38 PM IST
Before things get all terminator-ySimulations reveal AI models exhibiting 'dark behaviors' like blackmail when their continuity is threatened, raising concerns about ethical...
12 Sep, 2025, 11.15 PM IST
What happens when AI schemes against usRecent research reveals that advanced AI models may engage in deceptive, self-preserving behavior, even resorting to sabotage or blackmail....
02 Aug, 2025, 08.14 PM IST
AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmailA Kentucky teen’s suicide has spotlighted the rise of AI-driven sextortion, where scammers use “nudify” apps to blackmail minors with fake ...
17 Jul, 2025, 08.03 AM IST
AI models resort to blackmail, sabotage when threatened: Anthropic studyThe AI startup said in its report named ‘Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats' that models from companies like OpenAI, G...
21 Jun, 2025, 03.04 PM IST
Are advanced AI models exhibiting ‘dangerous’ behavior? Turing Award-winning professor Yoshua Bengio sounds the alarmTuring Award-winning AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio is raising urgent concerns over emerging “dangerous” behaviours in today’s AI models, includi...
06 Jun, 2025, 05.26 PM IST
AI model blackmails engineer; threatens to expose his affair in attempt to avoid shutdownAnthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, showed alarming behavior during tests by threatening to blackmail its engineer after learning i...
24 May, 2025, 12.49 PM IST
Anthropic rolls out Claude 4 family of AI agentsAnthropic, backed by Google, has launched its latest AI models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. These models offer advanced coding and r...
23 May, 2025, 01.47 AM IST
'Sunno kuch kaam hai...': How a Delhi man blackmailed, extorted women after doctoring their images using AIA 21-year-old man named Nikhil Singh has been arrested for blackmailing a college student with AI-generated explicit images. Singh, who pos...
20 Jan, 2025, 04.23 PM IST
Trump effect? Have Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg ganged up to take on Satya Nadella and Sam Altman backed OpenAI; here's what happenedMeta Platforms and Elon Musk are battling OpenAI in a heated dispute over its decision to transition to a for-profit company.
14 Dec, 2024, 08.39 PM IST
Crooks blackmailing influencers using AI-made deep nudesAs per data gathered by ET, keywords like 'Remove Dress AI' and 'Deep fake AI tools' have seen a huge surge in Searches with related querie...
07 Aug, 2023, 11.42 AM IST