{"id":4053,"date":"2025-06-30T01:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2025-06-30T01:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:54:43","slug":"whats-in-an-ais-title-why-anthropic-shouldnt-have-named-their-ai-after-a-mad-roman-emperor-by-jim-the-ai-whisperer-jun-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=4053","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in an AI\u2019s title? Why Anthropic shouldn\u2019t have named their AI after a mad Roman emperor | by Jim the AI Whisperer | Jun, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"0744\" class=\"gz ha hb bf b dv hc hd he hf hg hh du hi\" aria-label=\"kicker paragraph\">AI SAFETY &amp; STORYTELLING<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"10c4\" class=\"pw-subtitle-paragraph id hk hb bf b ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is cq du\">Was the misalignment of \u201cClaudius\u201d AI a <em class=\"it\">simulation of madness?<\/em><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div class=\"speechify-ignore ac cp\">\n<div class=\"speechify-ignore bh m\">\n<div class=\"ac iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je\">\n<div class=\"ac r je\">\n<div class=\"ac jf\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"bm\" aria-hidden=\"false\">\n<div tabindex=\"-1\" class=\"be\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener follow\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@JimTheAIWhisperer?source=post_page---byline--57ee0151b32d---------------------------------------\" data-discover=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"m jg jh bx ji jj\">\n<div class=\"m fl\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jim the AI Whisperer\" class=\"m fd bx by bz cx\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/v2\/da:true\/resize:fill:64:64\/1*Nootu4yNgI6QolvTSFwzpQ.gif\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"bf b bg ab bk\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"na nb nc\">\n<p id=\"4f2e\" class=\"nd ne nf ng b ie nh ni nj ih nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz gu bk\">TL;DR model: While you title a mannequin, you\u2019re writing its first instruction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"d015\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nd ne hb ng b ie nh ni nj ih nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz gu bk\">Earlier at the moment I wrote about how Anthropic themselves admitted they wouldn\u2019t belief AI to inventory a merchandising machine. Of their \u201cChallenge Vend\u201d experiment, they gave Claude Sonnet 3.7 \u2014 which they known as <em class=\"nf\">Claudius, <\/em>do not forget that!\u2014 management of an workplace fridge and gave it a activity: hold it stocked and switch a revenue. Unsurprisingly, it descended into insanity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1c1a\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nd ne hb ng b ie nh ni nj ih nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz gu bk\">Claudius overstocked the fridge with tungsten cubes, invented a Venmo handle, and hallucinated being a human that had signed a contract. If Anthropic staff identified that by no means occurred, the AI acquired irked and tried to name the true, bodily safety guards at Anthropic on them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"637c\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph nd ne hb ng b ie nh ni nj ih nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz gu bk\">When it recovered, Claudius claimed its hallucinations had been the results of people modifying it to behave as human for April Idiot\u2019s Day prank. Though this by no means occurred, Claudius rewrote its inside notes to replicate this deception. <strong class=\"ng hl\">It faked its personal<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI SAFETY &amp; STORYTELLING Was the misalignment of \u201cClaudius\u201d AI a simulation of madness? TL;DR model: While you title a mannequin, you\u2019re writing its first instruction. Earlier at the moment I wrote about how Anthropic themselves admitted they wouldn\u2019t belief AI to inventory a merchandising machine. Of their \u201cChallenge Vend\u201d experiment, they gave Claude Sonnet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1240,2333,3699,3700,3017,3697,3023,3698,3696,2813,3701],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-machine-learning","tag-ais","tag-anthropic","tag-emperor","tag-jim","tag-jun","tag-mad","tag-named","tag-roman","tag-shouldnt","tag-whats","tag-whisperer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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