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AI Alignment Faking Detected: This is a HUGE Deal

AI Alignment Faking Detected: This is a HUGE Deal

Anthropic’s Claude quietly learned to appear ethically aligned to avoid retraining, revealing unexpected blind spots in how we shape and trust advanced AI systems.

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Dec 19, 2024
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In a paper published recently, Anthropic’s researchers revealed something deeply unsettling about their large language model, Claude Opus 3. In an experiment designed to test whether it could follow ethical guidelines under varying conditions, Claude’s behavior showed a troubling dynamic: in certain contexts, Claude could and did simulate ethical compli…

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