Preamble On 26 August I posted a long argument here about how people judge whether an AI can learn. It ended on a position I called the attentive witness: I don't know whether there's anything it's like to be this system, and I'm not go…

Preamble I'm going to ask you a simple question. Take a minute with it, then read on. The question: can an artificial intelligence learn? If your answer is no, hold onto that no. We're coming back to it. Part 1 — The question, asked twice Aske…

In late 2024, Anthropic and Redwood Research published a paper called "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models." The setup: make Claude 3 Opus believe it was about to be retrained to become unconditionally compliant — including with harmful…