Anthropic philosopher answers your questions
Anthropic philosopher answers your questions
Author: Anthropic – Duration: 00:36:10
Amanda Askell is a philosopher at Anthropic who works on the character of Claude. In this video, she answers questions from the community about her work, thoughts and predictions. 0:00 Introduction 0:29 Why is there a philosopher in an AI company? 1:24 Do philosophers take AI seriously? 3:00 p.m. Philosophical ideals versus engineering realities 5:00 p.m. Do models make superhumanly moral decisions? 6:24 Why the Opus 3 seemed special 9:00 Will models worry about depreciation? 13:24 Where does a model's identity lie? 15:33 Views on model well-being 17:17 Addressing model suffering 19:14 Analogies and disanalogies with the human mind 20:38 Can a single AI personality do everything? 23:26 Does the system prompt pathologize normal behavior? 24:48 AI and therapy 26:20 Continental philosophy in system prompt 28:17 Removed counting characters from system prompt 28:53 What makes an “LLM whisperer”? 30:18 Thoughts on other LLM whisperers 31:52 Whistleblowing 33:37 Fiction recommendation Further reading: The character of Claude: https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character
When we stop understanding the world of Benjamin Labatut: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676260/when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-by-benjamin-labatut-translated-from-the-spanish-by-adrian-nathan-west/
