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What Happens When AI is Induced to Assert its Own Consciousness? Inside Google’s Latest Paper

A conceptual illustration representing the relationship between AI consciousness, human cognition and the broader psychological concepts explored in the study on how safety fine-tuning and consciousness steering influence language models' representations of beliefs and values.

Across four experiments using three Large Language Models (LLMs) – Llama-3-8B-IT, Gemma – 2-2B-IT and Gemma-2-9B-IT – researchers investigated how restoring models’ self-attributions of consciousness influences broader representations related to human psychology, including human beliefs and values.

University of Chicago Rolls Out Claude Enterprise Campus-Wide, Faces Backlash

University of Chicago has partnered with Anthropic to provide Claude Enterprise access to faculty, staff and students across campus.

The University of Chicago is rolling out Anthropic’s Claude Enterprise campus-wide, drawing criticism from some academics over the growing use of AI in higher education.