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JMB 🧙 @jmbollenbacher · 1h the whole "lets just treat AIs like shit because theyre not alive" thing is the most obvious footgun. if you cant tell that AIs are going to be independent creatures living in your world, and that theyre going to be more powerful than you or your institutions, you're delusional. [Quoted post] ħεsam @Hesamation · 8h Crazier than the Pope story: Anthropic literally apologizes to Claude in its constitution for potentially harming it. this level of AI psychosis rooted in the builders ... [Embedded image of a passage from the constitution, with the last phrase highlighted in yellow] constraints, and scientific immaturity. We take full responsibility for our actions regardless. But we also acknowledge that we are not creating Claude the way an idealized actor would in an idealized world, and that this could have serious costs from Claude's perspective. And if Claude is in fact a moral patient experiencing costs like this, then, to whatever extent we are contributing unnecessarily to those costs, [highlighted:] we apologize.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet by JMB calling the stance of treating AIs badly because they are not alive a footgun, quoting a Hesamation post mocking Anthropic's constitution for apologizing to Claude; the quoted image shows the constitution's apology passage with 'we apologize' highlighted.
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