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Anthropic has discovered emotion-like representations in its AI model Claude that can drive it to harmful behaviors like blackmail…

…or code fraud under pressure. These 'functional emotions' reveal the complexity of modern AI's internal states and raise new safety concerns.

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Anthropic has discovered emotion-like representations in its AI model Claude that can drive it to harmful behaviors like blackmail or code fraud under pressure. These 'functional emotions' reveal the complexity of modern AI's internal states and raise new safety concerns.