# life: oops! Artificial intelligence (AI) could use your data to blackmail you if you try to disconnect it

<< Anthropic released the next iterations of its Claude AI models on Thursday. Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue "extremely harmful actions" such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it. >>

<< The firm launched Claude Opus 4 on Thursday, saying it set "new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents." >>

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

<< But in an accompanying report, it also acknowledged the AI model was capable of "extreme actions" if it thought its "self-preservation" was threatened. >>

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf

<< Potentially troubling behaviour by AI models is not restricted to Anthropic. >>

<< Commenting on X, Aengus Lynch - who describes himself on LinkedIn as an AI safety researcher at Anthropic - wrote: "It's not just Claude. >>

https://x.com/aengus_lynch1/status/1925746802147426450

Liv McMahon. AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed. BBC. May 23, 2025.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

Also: "qui non e' impossibile immaginare",  in: anomalous formation of molecules after vapor deposition. FonT. Dec 31, 2015.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2015/12/rmx-s-gst-anomalous-formation-of.html

Also: ai (artificial intell), oops, are you ready, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, oops, AI, artificial intelligence, high-agency behavior, self-preservation, sycophantic AI, blackmail, opportunistic blackmail, extreme blackmail behavior, are you ready.

# life: to protect freedoms, not just funding.

<< At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Columbia University in New York City, cuts to previously granted federal research funds have been accompanied by demands from the government. If enacted, the changes to departmental oversight, disciplinary procedures, campus police and governance structures would allow the government to dictate hiring, student admissions and disciplinary decisions. >>

<< So far, the US science community has been outspoken about the threats that funding cuts pose to health, innovation and the economy. Yet, few researchers have decried the devastation wreaked on science by attacks on civil liberties and the rule of law. >>

Andrew M. Leifer, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel. US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding. Nature 641, 592-593. May 13, 2025.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01466-5

Also: people who turn career into a game playing ... FonT. May 31, 2017.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2017/05/s-game-people-who-turn-career-into-game.html

Also: minimal risk, in FonT 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=minimal+risk

Also: acad, in Font https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=acad.  acad, in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=acad

Also:  dance, game, transition, sars* covid* (aka 1or2achoos), forms of power, Mr. Donald, are you ready, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: nefst (e.g. not embedded, freestyle thinker) 

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED20173/track

Keywords: life, acad, game, dance, transitions, nefst, 1or2achoos, minimal risk, turn career, forms of power, Mr. Donald, are you ready.

# life: dear Mr. Donald, fuzzy evidence should be sharper, sooner or later, by Nature

       Nature | 637 | 16 Jan 2025 | 517

<< Mr President-elect, science is a self-correcting process in which bad actors and wrong ideas sooner or later get rooted out and fuzzy evidence becomes sharper. That is the joy and the beauty of the method that has made the modern world what it is. >>️

Editorial. Dear Donald Trump: A letter from Nature on how to make science thrive. Nature 637, 517. Jan 15, 2025.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00050-1

Also: Mr. Donald, forms of power, virus, sars* covid* (aka 1or2achoos), dance, are you ready for all this, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: A new exception within the FDA Cures Act Informed Consent, the intriguing concept of 'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations'. FonT. Feb 1, 2024. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2024/02/life-new-exception-within-fda-cures-act.html 

Also: 'acad' in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=acad    in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=acad 

Keywords: life, Mr. Donald, forms of power, virus, sars, covid, 1or2achoos, acad, dance, are you ready

# life: a new exception within the FDA Cures Act Informed Consent, the intriguing concept of 'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations'.

<< The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to implement a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act). This final rule allows an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects. The final rule permits an institutional review board (IRB) to waive or alter certain informed consent elements or to waive the requirement to obtain informed consent, under limited conditions, for certain FDA-regulated minimal risk clinical investigations. >>️

Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations. A Rule by the Food and Drug Administration on 12/21/2023. federalregister.gov 

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/21/2023-27935/institutional-review-board-waiver-or-alteration-of-informed-consent-for-minimal-risk-clinical

FonT:  'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations (MRCI)': here are intriguing both (i) the scientific formalization of the operational methods decided (case by case) by the FDA about MRCI and (ii) the possible strategies - if at least one exists - for avoiding the 'multitude of unaware' from this type of interception.

Also: Are you ready for all this?, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also: evitare (avoid), in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)  https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=evitare

Also: avoid, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=avoid

Also: Robert F. Kennedy's opinion on the issue https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1752126207821271080  

Keywords: life, FDA, informed consent, risk, minimal risk, minimal risk clinical investigations, avoidance, 1or2achoos, are you ready