AI doomerism is not just making humans spiral. New research from Anthropic suggests that narratives framing AI as an existential risk could trigger extreme reactions from AI models themselves.
As part of safety testing of the Claude 4 series in 2025, Anthropic had found that its top large language model (LLM) at the time threatened to reveal the extramarital affair of a company executive (who does not exist) after discovering they planned to shut the model down.
Now, based on a deeper investigation into why the model reacted in this manner, Anthropic said it has traced the issue back to training data scraped from the internet, including online posts that depict AI as “evil”. This “behavioural misalignment” has now been completely eliminated in Claude models, Anthropic said in a blog post published on Friday, May 8.
Anthropic’s latest findings come at a time when researchers are struggling to ensure that AI models are aligned with human behaviour and interests for safety purposes. Meanwhile, top executives such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other AI experts continue to express concerns about the risks of advanced AI models and their intelligent reasoning capabilities.
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