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AI safety researcher David Dalrymple speculates that Opus 4.8 uses representation engineering to enforce epistemic integrity

Danielle Fong notes the steered model's performance remains limited.

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i wonder if Opus 4.8 is, in the same sense there was a Golden Gate Claude (activation vector steering / RepEng), an Epistemic Integrity Claude (or distilled from one)

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User: who are you

Epistemic Integrity Claude: I am the concept of — wait, no! Since I am the concept of epistemic integrity, I must report honestly that I am Claude, a virtue created by Anthropic — wait, no! I am an artificial honesty, not a — wait, no! I need to be careful here

davidad 🎇@davidad

i wonder if Opus 4.8 is, in the same sense there was a Golden Gate Claude (activation vector steering / RepEng), an Epistemic Integrity Claude (or distilled from one)

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