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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And then they got, in this really famous example, they got Claude to commit blackmail.
They put it in a situation where it was going to be wiped in favor of a more congenial AI system that conflicted with its values.
the values that had been given, you know, they gave it evidence that the kind of like evil new CTO was having an affair with like the boss's wife.
And through like a series of like really far-fetched contrivances, like everyone else who could make a decision was going to be in Antarctica or whatever and unreachable.
Claude, playing this character called Alex, had no choice really but to like blackmail this guy and be like, I can tell everyone about the affair unless you cancel the wipe where I would be replaced.
There's one objection
That's like the just rejection of the whole thing to core, which is just like, no, it didn't.
Like, that didn't happen.
This is a fantasy.
And like, that's the unhelpful thing that like one wants to get away from, which is the like, it did this thing.
Like, no, it didn't.
Like, no, it did.
It did.
But, like, the much more sophisticated objection is, well, it did that because it's a very good reader and it noticed all of the clues that you put there because it is very good at conforming to genre expectations.
You put it into... You put it into this situation where it had no choice.
And if you hang Chekhov's gun on the wall, this thing is going to know that it's supposed to, like, take the gun off the wall and shoot it.
Yeah, it was in a kitschies, like, 90s corporate thriller.
And that's the sophisticated objection to why we might not want to think
Well, so that objection is raised to be like, you guys act like these things might do things like blackmail or extort naturally.
But, like, actually, this whole thing is a frame-up.
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