Amanda Askell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Jan
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I'm just kind of like, it feels like we're dropping the ball if we don't just try and explain to AI models what it is to be good.
Like, I don't know.
So, like, maybe it doesn't hold up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think if it was the case that there was some underlying like true goal that was like different, though, I guess part of me is like, well, if there is an underlying goal that the models like, you know, I do want to try to train models to have like good underlying goals, I guess.
And I'm like, well, if there is an underlying goal, how did that arise in training?
And like, why is that there?
But like, I also maybe I'm a little bit more hopeful than than others about that as well.
I've actually, it's interesting because great areas for me are the ones where I've seen the model do things that like surprised me in a positive way often.
Like when you didn't think of it, you know, like there were some cases recently of like Claude talking with people who said, oh, I'm like seven years old.
And like, is Santa real?
But yeah, in some ways, like sometimes I see Claude handling these in ways where I'm just like, oh, I can see why given like it feels like almost a bit surprising because you're like this isn't like a direct thing that you trained the models for.
And I think sometimes when you actually there's like almost like magical moments that can happen there.
Yeah, and I think there were a couple of situations like this.
And I think also actually like a
slight value in the background is maybe something like respecting the fact that the parental relationship is an important one because I saw a little bit of that where it would often be like oh the spirit of Santa is like real everywhere and uh you know maybe ask the purported seven-year-old about like if they were going to do something nice for Christmas or like um the other case of this was the you know like um my parents said that my dog went to live on a farm do you know how I can find the farm I actually found that like slightly emotional when I like read it
Um, and Claude said something like, um, I can, it sounds like you were very close and I can like hear that in what you're saying.
This is like a thing that it's good for you to talk with your, with your parents about.
And there's a part of me that was like, that felt very like, um,
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