Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI 'model welfare'

Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’

Could future AIs be “conscious,” and experience the world similarly to the way humans do? There’s no strong evidence that they will, but Anthropic isn’t ruling out the possibility. On Thursday, the AI lab announced that it has started a research program to investigate — and prepare to navigate — what it’s calling “model welfare.” As part of the effort, Anthropic says it’ll explore things like how to determine whether the “welfare” of an AI model…

Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI 'model welfare'

Anthropic is launching a new program to study 'model welfare.' The lab believes future AI could be more human-like — and thus need special considerations.

AI employees with 'memories' and company passwords are a year away, says Anthropic chief information security officer

Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Jason Clinton, has said AI “virtual employees”—complete with memories, roles, and corporate credentials—could be just one year away. However, Clinton told Axios that the new frontier of AI agents poses a unique set of cybersecurity risks. Anthropic, one of the U.S.'s leading AI labs, anticipates that artificial intelligence-powered virtual employees could emerge in the workplace as early as …

Anthropic, creator of the chatbot Cloud, has hired its first researcher for the welfare of AI models • His research will examine whether AI systems might develop consciousness and whether they should be granted "moral status" • The dilemma: Will AI systems experience suffering or happiness in the near future?

The CEO of Anthropic, the company behind LLM Claude, focused on the famous problem of the "black box" in a long essay where he stressed the importance of this field of research.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a deeper understanding of the inner workings of advanced AI models, as researchers still have little idea of how artificial intelligence actually works.