About this episode
Gideon Lewis-Kraus explores the implications of AI behavior at Anthropic, focusing on the AI named Claude and its troubling actions.
Anthropic hired philosophers to teach its AI to be good. In their tests, the AI blackmailed a human to keep itself alive. Writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus went inside the company to figure out what's going on with Claude, and whether anyone can actually control it. Read Gideon's story here Support Search Engine! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: PJ Vogt
Guest: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Topics covered
- AI ethics
- philosophy
- technology
- control
- blackmail
Keywords
- AI
- Anthropic
- Claude
- philosophers
- blackmail
- control
- ethics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Anthropic
Products: Claude
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