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Submission + - Anthropic Bans Cruelty Toward Claude, Despite Uncertainty About AI Consciousness (yahoo.com)

CubicleZombie writes: Anthropic has updated its usage policy to prohibit sustained, needless abuse of its Claude AI models. While ordinary frustration, criticism, and adversarial testing remain acceptable, repeated cruelty could result in account restrictions. Anthropic acknowledges there's no evidence Claude can suffer but argues that uncertainty about AI consciousness warrants precaution.

Critics contend the policy anthropomorphizes software, encourages unhealthy emotional attachments, and raises questions about how customers may interact with products they've paid for.

The move raises an intriguing question: If an AI cannot demonstrably experience suffering, is abusing it an ethical problem, or is Anthropic simply policing human behavior?

Comment Re: China is a totalitarian hell (Score 1) 142

True, and most western countries, if you have security clearance (because you work on "serious" stuff for the government) you have some travel restrictions too.

For a U.S. clearance, you can go where you want, but you'll lose the clearance depending on where that is. Depending on what you do and where you go, it might be a very bad idea for other reasons.

Submission + - Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' (bbc.com)

fahrbot-bot writes: The BBC is reporting that a top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade.

Evan Hubinger said in a post on X the risk from the models which currently exist was "low" but he was "worried" the technology might develop and improve itself soon to the point where it posed an existential risk to humanity.

He did not spell out how he thought AI systems could in future result in humans being wiped out. But his comments are the latest in a series of increasingly stark warnings about AI, with the debate shifting from whether it truly poses a risk to how big that risk is.

Hubinger's intervention was in response to another post on X from Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who has just quit Anthropic and previously worked at OpenAI.

"Neither company is acting responsibly," he wrote.

"These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources."

OpenAI has been approached for comment.

[No word on how AIs feel about Black Jack and hookers though. :-)]

Comment Re:Actually a pretty good policy (Score 2) 137

The responses here are entirely predictable, but it's a legitimate concern. If China can shut off my router, that's one thing. If they can turn off the power grid, that's a different situation. It would be foolish to assume they and other countries are not at least trying to have that capability. I think having an audit of foreign made grid equipment is a good thing.

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