How Does Claude 4 Think? - Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

Name: How Does Claude 4 Think? - Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
Uploaded: 2025-05-22
Description: Dwarkesh sits down with two Anthropic researchers - one scaling RL, one doing mechanistic interpretability - to trace how modern LLMs actually think. The "auditing game" section, where the interp team catches a deliberately-planted evil model in 90 minutes, is worth the whole thing.

Dwarkesh sits down with two Anthropic researchers - one scaling RL, one doing mechanistic interpretability - to trace how modern LLMs actually think. The "auditing game" section, where the interp team catches a deliberately-planted evil model in 90 minutes, is worth the whole thing.

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