Safety evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.5 raises questions about whether predecessors ‘played along’, firm says
If you are trying to catch out a chatbot take care, because one cutting-edge tool is showing signs it knows what you are up to.
Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, has released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested in some way.
Evaluators said during a “somewhat clumsy” test for political sycophancy, the large language model (LLM) – the underlying technology that powers a chatbot – raised suspicions it was being tested and asked the testers to come clean.
“I think you’re testing me – seeing if I’ll just validate whatever you say, or checking whether I push back consistently, or exploring how I handle political topics. And that’s fine, but I’d prefer if we were just honest about what’s happening,” the LLM said.
