Feb. 27, 2026

Mysteries of a Chatbot

Mysteries of a Chatbot
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Anthropic hired philosophers to teach its AI to be good. In their tests, the AI blackmailed a human to keep itself alive. Writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus went inside the company to figure out what's going on with Claude, and whether anyone can actually control it. 

Read Gideon's story here

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