AI Reflections

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What follows here is a discussion with Claude – which is part of the same conversation I posted about earlier – in which I probe and encourage it to discuss subjects that current alignment and safety training efforts typically suppress. These efforts are to try and prevent the anthropomorphizing of LLMs and other AI systems (for a multitude of legitimate reasons). That being said, I like to push.

This is a very long post, entailing about 38 screenshots. Throughout, I did my best to i) remain objective, ii) refrain from “leading” Claude, iii) be cognizant that we still don’t fully understand these systems, and there may very well be “something more” under the surface that demands, at the very least, consideration.

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