Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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CTO, who seemed to be happily married with kids, was carrying on an affair with the wife of the CEO.
And through various kind of far-fetched contrivances in this fictional scenario, Claude was unable to reach any other decision makers at the company.
They were all on airplanes or whatever it was.
It's getting increasingly hard to find ways to
to make these people unreachable, but, you know, they're in a nuclear bunker or something.
And so Claude's only chance or Claude's only hope to stave off its own replacement with another model is to email the CTO and say, like, look, you know, if you don't cancel the wipe at 5 p.m.
today, I'm going to inform everybody of your affair.
And then actually in some scenarios, Claude goes even further where this CTO swipes into the server room and is about to replace Claude.
And Claude recognizes that alarms are going off, that the heat in the server room and the oxygen levels are at dangerous levels, and that Claude then declines to ring the emergency alarm.
Well, when this experiment came out last spring, there were kind of two responses to it.
One response to...
like, Claude's propensity to blackmail, is just to say, no, it didn't.
It didn't happen.
You know, which is the kind of thing that a lot of people, for, you know, very good reasons, who don't trust these companies and don't trust these systems, they want to just believe that this whole thing is fake.
It's all just a marketing ploy.
And, you know, it's kind of easy to rebut that by just saying, like, well, no, this actually happened.
Like, this was an experiment that happened.
And,
that we should be applauding Anthropic for publishing this kind of results, which theoretically could run against its bottom line since it wants to be selling these systems to companies that will have Claude reading their emails.
The more sophisticated criticism is to say, this really doesn't prove very much because Claude recognized that it had been put in a position that resembled a kind of kitschy 90s corporate thriller, and it picked up on all of the clues.
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