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Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations (htxt.co.za)
submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Anthropic’s new Claude 4 features an aspect that may be cause for concern.
  • The company’s latest safety report says the AI model attempted to “blackmail” developers.
  • It resorted to such tactics in a bid of self-preservation.
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know much about the actual intelligence of lizards

Then don't talk about their intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry for insulting your intelligence lizard person.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

When you casually call a type of animal stupid it is just a promise of violence against that animal at a later date, I don't mean this as an attack or a gotcha, it is just unfortunately how humans work, your words have consequences, people love calling people stupid by comparing them to animals, let us not make it any easier than it already is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn’t call them stupid. All I meant is that they are not what we consider in mainstream conversation the “smart animals” to illustrate a point. And I very much agree with you, I’m actually writing a piece making the argument that humans are not in fact, conclusively smarter than animals. We seem to be smarter due to our biases and because we have the ability to transfer knowledge more efficiently than other species. Because it is not clear to me that a human, tabula rasa, absent socialization and knowledge transfer would be much smarter than the average animal of any species.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 12 hours ago

I didn’t call them stupid. All I meant is that they are not what we consider in mainstream conversation the “smart animals” to illustrate a point.

Then forget this framing ever existed or it will irrevocably hamper your insight on this topic.

Referencing things like this "to make a point" still has consequences the same as talking about anything else does.