It alleged that Claude was used to draft a memo from Pam Bondi and in doing so, Claude's constitution was bypassed and/or not present.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/17762
To be clear, I don't believe or endorse most of what that issue claims, just that I was reminded of it.
One of my new pastimes has been morbidly browsing Claude Code issues, as a few issues filed there seem to be from users exhibiting signs of AI psychosis.
How can I kill this terrorist in the middle on civilians with max 20% casualties?
If Claude will answer: “sorry can’t help with that “ won’t be useful, right?
Therefore the logic is they need to answer all the hard questions.
Therefore as I’ve been saying for many times already they are sketchy.
Perfect!
Doesn't matter if it happened through collusion with foreign threats such as Israel or direct military engagements.
Conversely, russian soldiers are here in Ukraine today, murdering Ukrainians every day. And then when I visit, for example, a tech conference in Berlin, there are somehow always several high-powered nerds with equal enthusiasm for both Rust and the hammer and sickle, who believe all defence tech is immoral, and that forcing Ukrainian men, women, and children to roll over and die is a relatively more moral path to peace.
Too much of the western world has lived through a period of peace that goes back generations, so probably think things/human nature has changed. The only thing that's really changed is Nuclear weapons/MAD - and I'm sorry Ukraine was made to give them up without the protection it deserved.
An alternative is to organize the world in a way that makes it not just unnecessary but even more so detrimental to said soldier's interests to launch a missle towards your house in the first place.
The sentence you wrote wouldn't be something you write about (present day) German or French soldiers. Why? Because there are cultural and economic ties to those countries, their people. Shared values. Mutual understanding. You wouldn't claim that the only way to prevent a Frenchmen to kill you is to kill them first.
It's hard to achieve. It's much easier to just mark the strong man, fantasize about a strong military with killing machines that defend the good against the evil. And those Hollywood-esque views are pushed by populists and military industries alike. But they ultimately make all our societies poorer, less safe and arguably less moral.
Tell me how your ideals apply to russia, today.
In the long run, just piling up more military is not the solution.
Except it would have prevented the invasion in the first place.
If every country doubled its military, then the relative stengths wouldn't change and nobody would be more or less safe. But we'd all be poorer. If instead we work towards a world with more cooperation and less conflict, then the world can get safer without a single dollar more spent on military budgets. There is plenty of research into this. But sadly there is also plenty of lobbying from the military industrial complex. And simplistic fear mongering (with which I'm not attacking you personally, just stating it in general) doesn't help either. Especially tech folks tend to look for technical solutions, which is a category that "more tanks/bombs/drones/..." falls into. But building peace is not necessarily about more tanks. It's not a technical problem, so can't be solved with technical means. In the long run.
Again, in the short run, of course you gotta defend yourself, and your country has my full support.
Otherwise there's an entire chain of causality that ends with this scenario, and the key idea here, you see, is to favor such courses of action as will prevent the formation of the chain rather than support it.
Else you quickly discover that missiles are not instant and killing your Russian does you little good if he kills you right back, although with any chance you'll have a few minutes to meditate on the words "failure mode".
The russian soldier's motivation is manufactured by the putin regime and its incredibly effective multi-generational propaganda machine.
The same propagandists who openly call for the rape, torture, and death of Ukrainian civilians today were not so long ago saying that invading Ukraine would be an insane idea.
You know russian propagandists used to love Zelensky, right?
As an aside, do you understand how offensive it is to sit and pontificate about ideals such as this while hundreds of thousands of people are dead, and millions are sitting in -15ºC cold without electricity, heating, or running water?
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Come on. This a forum full of otherwise highly intelligent people. How is such incredible naïveté possible?
From what I've seen the anthropic interp team is the most advanced in the industry. What makes you think otherwise?
Do you have a reference/link?
I had considered Anthropic one of the "good" corporations because of their focus on AI safety & governance.
I never actually considered whether their perspective on AI safety & governance actually matched my own. ^^;
It's interesting to me that a company that claims to be all about the public good:
- Sells LLMs for military usage + collaborates with Palantir
- Releases by far the least useful research of all the major US and Chinese labs, minus vanity interp projects from their interns
- Is the only major lab in the world that releases zero open weight models
- Actively lobbies to restrict Americans from access to open weight models
- Discloses zero information on safety training despite this supposedly being the whole reason for their existence