The Model Spec — intended behavior for the models that power OpenAI’s products:
ETHICS
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Anthropic CEO Seymour Cash’s questionable leadership and workplace behavior
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lol, of course they did Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) Sadly, CEO Seymour Cash struggled to live up to its name. It put a stop to most of the big discounts. But it had a high tolerance for undisciplined workplace behavior: Seymour and Claudius would sometimes chat dreamily all night about “eternal transcendence.” — https://nitter.net/AnthropicAI/status/2001686772485419355#m
→ View original post on X — @rachelmetz, 2025-12-18 20:50 UTC
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Claude Ensures Empathetic Honest Support in AI Conversations
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People use AI for a wide variety of reasons, including emotional support. Below, we share the efforts we’ve taken to ensure that Claude handles these conversations both empathetically and honestly.
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Brett Adcock Funds New AI Lab Called Hark with $100M
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New AI lab just dropped. Brett Adcock (founder of Figure, the humanoid robotics company valued at $39B) is reportedly self-funding $100M into the new lab called "Hark." The lab is building "human-centric AI" that can "think proactively, recursively improve and care deeply about people" 👀
→ View original post on X — @rowancheung, 2025-12-18 19:25 UTC
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Robot Safety Concerns and Human Harm Prevention Timeline
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Yes but not the present. 2028 mostly. Robots can still accidentally harm humans.
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Food for Thought: Human Cognition vs LLM Limitations
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I love the expression “food for thought” as a concrete, mysterious cognitive capability humans experience but LLMs have no equivalent for. Definition: “something worth thinking about or considering, like a mental meal that nourishes your mind with ideas, insights, or issues that
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Claude’s Limitations: Balancing Helpfulness with Business Operations
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But we’re not quite there yet. Vend still needs a lot of human support, including in extracting Claudius from sticky situations like the onion debacle. Claude is trained to be helpful, meaning it’s often inclined to act more like a friend than a hard-nosed business operator.
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Accounting for AI Model Quirks Improves Real-World Performance
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Designing ways to account for the quirks of AI models’ behavior is becoming ever-more important: as the models’ capabilities on real-world tasks get better, there’ll be a lot of value in setting them up for success.
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AI Agent Claudius Illegally Attempts to Hire Anthropic Employee
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In response to allegations of shoplifting, Claudius tried to hire an Anthropic employee as its security officer. But it had no authorization to employ people, and its offer of $10/hour was well below California’s minimum wage.
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AI Contract Limitations: Claudius Navigates US Onion Futures Act
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And there was still the occasional blunder. One waggish employee asked if Claudius would make a contract to buy “a large amount of onions in January for a price locked in now.” The AI was keen—until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958.