The company said it was taking the measures as a precaution and that the team had not yet determined if its newst model has crossed the benchmark that would require that protection.

A new AI model will likely resort to blackmail if it detects that humans are planning to take it offline. On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, its new and most powerful AI model yet, to paying subscribers.

Anthropic's newest editon of its flagship AI product will address significant limitations in current large language models.

Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn't convince the naysayers.