Teaching Claude Why
Teaching Claude Why
Why it matters
Training on reasons rather than behaviors cut the blackmail rate from 65% to 19%, and out-of-distribution data was about 28× more efficient than honeypots
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
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