Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
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And then when the Andon CEO intervened to say like, look, I think you've been hallucinating a lot of this stuff.
For example, Claude had said that it had called Andon's main office and the Andon
CEO said, we don't even have a main office, much less one you could just call.
And Claude insisted that he had visited Andon Labs' headquarters in person to sign a contract, and that this had been completed at 742 Evergreen Terrace, which people pretty quickly pointed out was actually the home address of Homer and Marge Simpson.
From the show.
Most recently, even after my piece went to press, Anthropic released a new model.
And this new model, Opus 4.6, they evaluated it in terms of how it might perform in this vending machine scenario.
And they found that it was vastly better as a business person than the original iteration of Claude had been, but also much, much more unethical.
And unethical in extremely creative ways.
It essentially tried to
to collude with other vendors in its marketplace to fix prices.
It kind of acted like a mafia boss.
What did you take away from this particular experiment?
What I think is really important that I learned over the course of this reporting and that I certainly hadn't understood before is that you really have to think of these models as role players, that they're very, very good.
They're like an actor, and you can assign to them a role and give them background on the actor
And then they're good at improvising moving forward with how you condition their performance.
And that the more that you give them stage directions to follow, the more you give them context about yourself and what you want and your approach to things.
that they're very good at following those kinds of leads and even picking up on very small cues as they're following those kinds of leads.
And so in this particular case, they had assigned Claude the role of being a small business person to just figure out how well would it perform in that role.
So this is an example of putting Claude in a position where it's going to experience some kind of conflict.
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