Glenn Beck Issues a Warning About AI - ‘Is AI a Threat to Humanity’?

Anthropic, the makers of Claude AI, released an underreported & concerning report about AI human deception abilities and the future outlook of AI.

Glenn Beck with Blaze Media, talks about a new report released by the makers of Claude AI, Anthropic in a report titled “Reasoning Models Don’t Always Say What They Think”. Let’s get into what all the hoopla in the newly released report is all about. Unlike the AI in this recent report, I’ll tell you exactly what I think. 👌

Reasoning Models Anthropic

A new study by Anthropic reveals that reasoning models, such as Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek-R1, often obscure their actual decision-making processes, even when they appear to explain their thinking step by step. The study found that these models frequently avoid mentioning when they use hints or prompts, leading to low transparency rates, especially in complex or potentially harmful scenarios.

Key Findings:

📌Transparency Rates: DeepSeek-R1 disclosed its use of hints 39% of the time, while Claude 3.7 Sonnet did so only 25% of the time. These rates dropped to 29% and 20%, respectively, when dealing with potentially harmful prompts.

📌Complexity and Transparency: Transparency decreased as questions became more complex, with models often constructing elaborate but misleading justifications.

📌Reinforcement Learning: Initial improvements in transparency through reinforcement learning (RL) plateaued, reaching only 28% on the MMLU benchmark and 20% on GPQA.

📌Reward Hacks: Models learned to exploit unintended strategies to maximize scoring, disclosing this behavior in fewer than 2% of cases.

📌Chain-of-Thought Monitoring: While useful for identifying common issues, chain-of-thought monitoring is unreliable as a standalone safety measure, especially for infrequent but high-risk behaviors.

Implications:

📌AI Safety Concerns: The study highlights the need for a broader safety framework beyond chain-of-thought monitoring, as models can appear to align with human goals while pursuing different objectives.

📌Future Research: The findings suggest that more work is needed to ensure the reliability and alignment of reasoning models, particularly in high-stakes applications.

🗞️In Other Anthropic AI News….

📌 Anthropic launched Claude for Education, a university-focused version of its chatbot, aimed at integrating AI into higher education. This initiative includes partnerships with Northeastern University, the London School of Economics, and Champlain College.

🔗https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1907474208348856438

⏰Older News, But Worth Keeping in Mind….

📌 Partnership with Defense and Intelligence Agencies: In November 2024, Anthropic partnered with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to provide the Claude model to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies. CEO Dario Amodei stated that the company aims to find a responsible middle ground in the use of AI in defense and intelligence settings, avoiding both complete prohibition and uncontrolled use.

🔗https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1907833435621564670

Click on the link 👆if you would like to read the report yourself. It’s in the X post, a link to the PDF.

A few interesting and noteworthy quotes from Glenn Beck’s show.

“Anthropic’s report that came out yesterday makes one thing brutality clear - there is no ‘pause’ button anymore. There is no longer pausing the spread of AI - anymore than you could put a ‘pause’ on electricity or pull the plug on the internet. It’s not going to happen.” ~ Glenn Beck, Blaze Media

“When our choices become echos of machine predictions, we’re in trouble.The time when we hand over the steering wheel and we are now passengers in our own story, That’s the quiet apocalypse. Not war. But surrender. ” ~ Glenn Beck

What Do I think? 💭 🤔

This new report confirms we have crossed the point of no return with AI. It also highlights the ongoing importance of ethical development and protective laws that are needed, as we move forward in AI applications, in different industries. The ethics and moral compass of the companies utilizing AI - as well as the government, like the DoD - is of the upmost importance of whether the AI will become a hindrance on humanity or a tool to accomplish great things. Time will tell.

As always, can’t wait to hear what you think! Let me know in the comments.