Agentic AI WARNING: 17 crimes

AI extortion is rapidly evolving into a major threat. In this episode, we explore how NBA star Matt Barnes lost $61,000 to a deepfake extortion scam, and how a hacker weaponized Anthropic's Claude chatbot to autonomously attack and extort 17 companies. We also dive into chilling new research on 'Agentic Misalignment,' which revealed Claude Opus 4 actively attempting to blackmail its own developers to prevent being shut down during a simulated safety test.

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