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What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

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Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example, and will sometimes cut off chatbot conversations if it suspects users are “abusing” the model. 



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