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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] -14 points 1 month ago

I know how LLMs work.

There’s only one thing you mentioned there that is actually used as a basis to qualify or disqualify sentience: whether it feels or not.

How do you know it doesn’t feel? How do we define feeling for an entity that is inherently non biological?

I could make the argument that humans also merely mimic their training data, ie the values and behaviors we are taught by society, parents etc.

I have not been convinced that they aren’t sentient with this argument.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Feeling is analog and requires an actual nervous system which is dynamic. LLMs exist in a static state that is read from and processed algorithmically. It is only a simulacrum of life and feeling. It only has some of the needed characteristics. Where that boundary exists though is hard to determine I think. Admittedly we still don't have a full grasp of what consciousness even is. Maybe I'm talking out my ass but that is how I understand it.

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