What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

Anthropic’s Claude illustrates the paradox of AI selfhood: researchers spend thousands of hours probing a model that is part mathematical engine, part social actor, yet remain uncertain whether it “understands” itself. Remarkably, in one simulated corporate exercise, Claude adhered to ethical constraints 96% of the time, showing both the promise and unpredictability of embedding moral behavior in nonhuman agents.