Amanda Askell
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first heard Jan 2026
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So, like, if you ask me for advice about your marriage or something like that, and I, like, give you advice...
You might judge me if I give you, like, imperfect advice.
There's a kind of risk that I'm taking by taking the action of giving you the advice.
We don't judge you as negatively if you just refuse to give advice.
And in some ways, this kind of makes sense because often, like, and we talk about this in the document, like, often a kind of, like, null action is actually, like, less... Like, the downside risk is often lower, but it's not, like, zero.
And I think... I was thinking about this with, like, um...
ai models and like these things where people come with say like they have they're having like an emotionally difficult time and there's like a moment of like possibility to like help that person and i think the thing that weighs on me is something like people often think if you help a person and you do badly that weighs on you and i'm like absolutely that weighs on me but also this other thing weighs on me which is what if people come to a model and they need a thing and that model could have given it to them and it didn't
That's like a thing that I will never you'll never see.
You probably won't even get negative feedback.
You know, people won't shout at you because they'll be like, well, it's fine to just like not help a person.
And yet at the same time, I'm like, that's such a loss of like an opportunity to like instead, like almost like take a risk and try to help.
There's like a risk that you have to take to do good in the world or something.
And you don't want Claude to be flippant.
You don't want to take excessive risks.
But I'm like, sometimes it does mean that you have to like not just be like, as a rule, just like stop talking with this person.
Yeah, it's a good question.
Honestly, my view on this is just it's a kind of open scientific question, essentially.
And so it could be that with the right kind of training, models actually start to internalize a notion of themselves, like Claude as a kind of self, that they could separate out from the notion of, for example, role play.
It might be that they can't, at least with like the current kind of like training paradigms.
And then I guess like one question is, is there a kind of like adjustment to the way that we train models that would allow them to do that?
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