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Here’s a new twist on AI. In an article in The Daily Doom yesterday, a co-founder of the AI developer Anthropic went to the pope to gain understanding of AI’s newly developing emotions. He believes the world’s largest electronic brains, at least the one his company is building, are showing strong evidence of emergent emotions—not something they were programmed to develop.
That raises the question, “What if an extremely powerful and globally significant AI developed deeply complex emotions and had an emotional/mental breakdown?”
Anthropic’s research revealed that its AI named Claude has exhibited 171 distinct “emotion concepts” buried in its neural network. These included patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of those were part of its programming or design. Instead, they appear to have emerged on their own from training on human texts.
What he meant by that was that the emotional responses were not just a veneer in order to look more human for the sake of the person asking the AI a question. The emotions were shaping the way the AI thought and interacted. In some cases, the AI was spiteful, as in damaging with its answers, if given questions or statements that seemed to anger it. The AI was giving answers tainted by its own emotions, which were never in its programming:
