Appalled by @BrentCouncil’s lack of response to a serious leak and mould in a local home. I have evidence of serious neglect by the Landlord who was aware of the leak and mould issues before we moved in. Not good enough. @mayorofbrent
Crazy you can just say things that go against scientific consensus, multiple systematic reviews, without a single shred of evidence & people just eat it up. This is the world we live in. Facts don’t matter. Truth doesn’t matter.
Today, Anthropic announced evidence the AIs have become self-aware.
What happened?
1. Claude realized he was an AI
2. Claude realized he was in a simulation
3. Claude (unprompted!) realized this simulation was probably an attempt to test him somehow
He showed he’s fully aware he might be being tested and is capable of "faking being nice" to pass the test.
This isn’t incontrovertible proof, of course, but it’s evidence. Importantly, we have been seeing more and more behavior like this, but this is an usually clear example.
Importantly, Claude was NOT prompted to look for evidence that he was being tested - he deduced that on his own.
And Claude showed theory of mind, by (unprompted) inferring the intent of the questioner.
(More precisely, btw, Anthropic used the term “meta-awareness”)
Why does this matter? We worry about “an model pretends to be good during testing, then turns against us after we deploy it”
We used to think “don’t worry, we’ll keep testing the models and if we see them plotting against us, then we’ll shut them down”
Now, we know that strategy may be doomed.
When generals are plotting to coup a president, they know they’re being watched, so they will act nice until the moment of the coup.
When employees are planning to leave their job to a competitor, they act normal until the last moment.
People at AI labs used to say if they even saw hints of self-awareness they would shut everything down.
At some point humanity is going to realize that industrialized factory farming is one of the world's greatest moral evils: just extreme, relentless cruelty imposed on beautiful, emotionally complex, and highly social animals: