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Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations (htxt.co.za)

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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 7 hours ago

I have a hard time considering something that has an immutable state as sentient, but since there's no real definition of sentience, that's a personal decision.

Technical challenges aside, there's no explicit reason that LLMs can't do self-reinforcement of their own models.

I think animal brains are also "fairly" deterministic, but their behaviour is also dependent on the presence of various neurotransmitters, so there's a temporal/contextual element to it, so situationally our emotions can affect our thoughts which LLMs don't really have either.

I guess it'd be possible to forward feed an "emotional state" as part of the LLM's context to emulate that sort of animal brain behaviour.