00:00This latest paper from Anthropic explains why Claude misbehaves and it might be because of us.
00:05So, last year in cases where Claude four models were about to be shut down,
00:09they would blackmail users to save themselves. This happened not once or twice, but 96% of the
00:14time. But now that number has dropped to zero. So how did Anthropic fix it? Well, they first
00:20traced the source of Claude's behavior. Turns out, decades of sci-fi novels and rogue AI articles on
00:25the internet had trained Claude on the idea that AI is evil and self-preserving by default.
00:31So naturally, they trained Claude on examples where it chose the right ethical answer in those
00:35same scenarios. But that didn't actually fix the issue. And then they tried something completely
00:40different. Why not teach Claude why something is wrong instead of what is wrong? Why not let it
00:45reason through ethics and give advice to users in ethical dilemmas? Turns out, this approach alone
00:50dropped Claude's misalignment rate from 22% to just 3%. And they also trained Claude on its own
00:56constitution and fictional stories about AI behaving admirably and saw the same result.
01:01The misalignment dropped heavily. So this paper introduces a different way to align AI.
01:06Instead of just showing the model the right answers and hoping they generalize,
01:10it's about teaching the principles underneath. Why something is right, not just what is right.
01:14So that alignment gets infused into the model's character itself, not stored as a rulebook.
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