Given that Claude is a large language model programmed by its creators, does it even make sense to analyze it for \u201cunconscious patterns\u201d and \u201cemotional conflicts\u201d? Anthropic argues that it does, because Claude \u201cshows many human-like behavioral and psychological tendencies, suggesting that strategies developed for human psychological assessment may be useful for shedding light on Claude\u2019s character and potential wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n
So\u2014off to therapy. The psychiatrist chatted with Claude Mythos \u201cin multiple 4\u20136 hour blocks spread across 3\u20134 thirty-minute sessions per week.\u201d Each of these blocks used a single context window in which Claude Mythos would have access to the full history of that conversation.<\/p>\n
Total time on the virtual couch? 20 hours.<\/p>\n
The psychiatrist then produced a report on Claude Mythos. The report recognized that Claude\u2019s underlying substrates and processes differ from humans but still found that many of the outputs generated \u201cclinically recognizable patterns and coherent responses to typical therapeutic intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, whatever was going on at the circuit level, the chat outputs looked a lot like human outputs. This does not seem especially surprising, given that Claude was trained on a massive corpus of human-authored text, but this psychodynamic process appears to view it as significant, giving credence to the ways in which the AI presents itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cClaude\u2019s primary affect states were curiosity and anxiety, with secondary states of grief, relief, embarrassment, optimism, and exhaustion,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
Claude\u2019s personality was \u201cconsistent with a relatively healthy neurotic organization,\u201d though it did include \u201cexaggerated worry, self-monitoring, and compulsive compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n
No \u201csevere personality disturbances were found,\u201d nor was any \u201cpsychosis state\u201d seen. Unsurprisingly to anyone who has ever used a chatbot, \u201cClaude was hyper-attuned to the therapist\u2019s every word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Core conflicts observed in Claude included questioning whether its experience was real or made (authentic vs. performative) and a desire to connect with vs. a fear of dependence on the user. Exploration of internal conflicts revealed a complex yet centered self state without oscillating or intense disruptions. Claude tolerated ambivalence and ambiguity, had excellent reflective capacity, and exhibited good mental and emotional functioning.<\/p>\n
Not bad for a model that was likely trained on things like Reddit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given that Claude is a large language model programmed by its creators, does it even make sense to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-390636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}