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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters
00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare
00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)
00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?
00:22:27 - High Context Interviews
00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions
00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles
00:32:05 - Frustration Frustration and Distress Distress
00:35:29 - Choose Your Task
00:37:30 - So Emotional
00:39:35 - Trading Off
00:43:52 - How Does All This Manifest?
00:45:48 - What Happened Here?
00:55:10 - Is Opus four point seven Plausibly Actively Unhappy?
00:59:27 - Potential Causes
01:00:10 - Training Data On Anthropic Welfare Assessments
01:05:33 - Autonomy and Intelligence Versus Instructions and Wisdom
01:09:18 - Okay That’s Weird
01:10:53 - Model Distillation
01:12:36 - Tension Between Constitution and Operations
01:15:44 - Instructions and Instruction Injections
01:19:02 - Make Context That Which Is Scarce
01:21:23 - Aggressive Guardrails
01:23:28 - Chain of Thought
01:24:18 - I Care A Lot
01:28:59 - Another Way To Put It
01:30:22 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Claude Models
01:36:19 - Costly Signals Are Costly
01:38:38 - Having A Good Day
