Amanda Askell
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338 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Jan
Amanda Askell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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managing to not actually be actively deceptive so not like lying to the person respecting the fact that if this person is a child then actually like the parent-child relationship is an important one and it's not necessarily Claude's place to come in with like and be like I'm gonna tell you a bunch of hard truths or something and also trying to hold the well-being of the child like and the person that Claude is talking with and I thought that was like
quite skillful in a sense.
And so that was like, and not to say I'm sure people could look at it and find imperfections and whatnot.
But I think when you see instances like that, that weren't a thing that you directly gave Claude as an example and the model doing well, it's like quite surprising and pleasant.
I think this is more of a response to like a lot of the things that are hard constraints also, you know, like, you know, if you read the document and people can take a look at them, but they're quite extreme, you know, like they're things like, oh, things that could cause the deaths of many people, like the use of like biological and chemical weapons.
It's mostly like trying to think through what are situations in the future that models, like what are the possible things that they could do in the world that would cause like a lot of harm and disruption.
And
In some ways, I think Claude might be like, look, if I have this broad ethics and these good values, why would you even put these in as hard constraints?
I'm just never going to do them anyway.
And the document almost tries to talk to this a little bit, where it's like, well...
you're also in this kind of like, you know, limited information circumstance.
But, you know, I could imagine a world where you just meet someone who's really convincing and they just like go and they just tear apart your ethics.
And at the end of it, you're like, you're right.
I should help you with this like biological weapon.
And it's kind of like,
We want you to understand, Claude, that in that circumstance, you probably have in some sense been like jailbroken.
Something has probably gone wrong.
Maybe it hasn't, but it's like probably safer to assume that that might have happened.
And so we're almost, you know, giving you a kind of like an out and hopefully a kind of, if anything, it could be seen as a sort of like security of you can reason with that person.
You can talk them through all of those conclusions.
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