Parliamentary Testimony Puts a Number on Anthropic's Internal Misalignment Fears

Testimony to British lawmakers reportedly cites internal Anthropic views that plans to hand Claude its own research process carry a 5% chance the model ends up 'plotting against humanity.'

A piece of testimony delivered to British Parliament is circulating this weekend, and the specific figure in it is what has people talking. According to @ONagel33303, the testimony — attributed to former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo — describes Anthropic plans to put Claude in charge of its entire research process, and cites an internal alignment researcher's estimate of roughly a 5% risk that Claude would end up working against human interests.

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