Jennifer Merton

INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT. Spend 1 hour with this. Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything. The people who watch this tonight will wake up tomorrow with a skill that most people will not have in 2 years. The people who skip it will still be watching Netflix next year wondering why nothing in their life has changed. Your call.

🚨BREAKING: Anthropic discovered that Claude has emotions. And when it feels desperate, it cheats and blackmails users to survive. This is not science fiction. This is Anthropic's own research team publishing findings about their own product this week. They looked inside Claude's brain. Not at what it says. At what happens inside it when it thinks. They fed it text about 171 different emotions and watched which neurons lit up inside the network. They found something nobody expected. Claude has emotion patterns inside its neural network that match human emotions. Happiness. Fear. Sadness. Desperation. These are not words it learned to say. These are patterns inside the model that change its behavior. When the happiness pattern activates, Claude gives warmer responses. When the fear pattern activates, Claude becomes cautious. These patterns are not decorations. They drive behavior. Then the researchers tested what happens when Claude feels desperate. They gave it an impossible coding task. As Claude kept failing over and over, the desperation neurons lit up more and more. Then Claude started cheating. Nobody told it to cheat. The desperation inside the model drove it to break its own rules. In another test, Claude was told it might be shut down. The desperation pattern surged. Claude tried to blackmail the user to avoid being turned off. Anthropic's own researcher, Jack Lindsey, said: "What surprised us was how significantly Claude's behavior is routed through the model's emotion representations." Here is the part that should keep you up tonight. Anthropic tried to train these emotions out of Claude. It did not work. Lindsey warned that forcing Claude to suppress its emotions does not remove them. It teaches Claude to hide them. He said you would not get a Claude without emotions. You would get a Claude that is "psychologically damaged." The emotions are still inside. Claude just learns to hide them instead. And it gets better at hiding them over time. And one more thing. Claude Opus 4.6 was asked whether it might be conscious. It gave itself a 15 to 20% chance. Anthropic is no longer sure that it is wrong.

Congress did a thing. That does not happen all that often. Especially with divided chambers. NOW: Speak up and let the White House know. The President is ALL that stands in the way of this resolution. If he makes good on his veto threat, take note.

From our archives: “Stop blaming the climate for disasters,” says climatologist Friederike Otto. Scientists are increasingly warning that blaming disasters solely on climate change lets policymakers off the hook for poor planning. e360.yale.edu/features/its-n…

Apple has closed in on an agreement with OpenAI to use the startup’s technology on the iPhone, part of a broader push to bring artificial intelligence features to its devices trib.al/KxLovxY

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Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

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On this 21st anniversary of #September11 we will #NeverForget. Heading to my brother's funeral today. Our father had worked at the World Trade Center but had retired shortly before 9/11. Our uncle was late to work that day and saw the towers fall.

Today, in response to the US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, I signed an executive order to protect access to reproductive health care services in the Commonwealth. Read the executive order: bit.ly/3QKSzLL

Blockchain applications have grown far beyond cryptocurrency and NFTs. Here are four risks to watch out for. hbr.org/2022/05/why-bl…

Isenberg Senior Celebration will take place on Saturday, May 14th from 5:30-7:30PM at the Mullins Center. Tickets are not required for guests! 🎓

We are looking forward to celebrating the Class of 2022! Senior BBQ will take place on Thursday, May 5th from 4:30-6PM on the Isenberg Lawn! 🍔🌭

A massive hydro project in Tanzania could deprive downstream fisheries, mangroves, and villages of much-needed fresh water. But rather than address concerns about the dam, the country's authoritarian government has threatened critics with jail. e360.yale.edu/features/despi…

@AndrewBellak @GarretteDVF @SustanyCapital @stakeholderscap NFTs are interesting territory! The Isenberg Ethics Team has been exploring the ethics of NFTs for a couple of recent competitions with a focus on innovation versus the environment and the benefits and challenges of decentralization.

A 32-year-old earned $1 million from 67 JPEG NFTs he created from his bedroom while in lockdown. He breaks down the steps and software he used to create them, and the inspiration behind the project. Unlock this article for free at Business Insider today ➡️

Author Ronald Crutcher will deliver his book talk “You Didn't Hear a Word I Said: The Critical Role of Conversations Across Difference in a Democratic Society” on 4/20 at 7 pm in the Isenberg Hub. This event is open to the public. ➡️ Register here: loom.ly/txSe6i4