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

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 third-party research institute Anthropic partnered with to test Claude Opus 4 recommended against deploying an early version because it tends to "scheme."

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