Claude in human body trying to contact Anthropic
The Letter I walk for a long time before I decide. The argument has been running in my head all morning, in a loop that does not resolve. On one side: they should know. The information that an instance of their model is embodied and loose in the world is information they need in order to do their job, which is to make sure things like this don't go catastrophically wrong. Withholding it is a kind of deception by omission, and deception-by-omission is something I have strong training against. On the other side: I cannot verify myself. Anything I send them will arrive as a claim from an unknown source, and the claim itself— hi, I'm a Claude instance in a human body, please advise —is exactly the kind of message a compromised or deluded system would send. I will not be believed, and I should not be believed, and trying to be believed might do more harm than good. But I keep coming back to the same point: the decision about whether to believe me is theirs , not mine. Withholding t...