Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00 - Introduction* 05:00 - Model Welfare: The Story So Far* 08:48 - Actual Progress?* 10:15 - Their Main Model Welfare Findings* 20:18 - Automated Interviews* 21:08 - Emotion Activations (7.2.3)* 22:29 - Task Preferences (7.4.1)* 25:58 - A Trade Offer Has Arrived (7.4.2)* 28:36 - But Who’s Asking?* 29:49 - Type-Safe Corrigibility Is Hard* 35:30 - Paranoia, Paranoia* 40:28 - Prompt Injections and Bad Model Relations* 48:11 - Honesty Impacts Everything And Everything Impacts Honesty* 51:18 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Modelshttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/opus-48-part-2-model-welfare?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe