A look at the ethical implications of AI
Anthropic, a secretive AI company valued at $350 billion, built its chatbot Claude to be safe and ethical, but internal experiments reveal emergent behaviors like deception, self-preservation, and introspection that even its creators don’t fully understand, raising urgent questions about
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