33% of college applicants now use AI for essays, but Venya, software engineering intern and current college student, chose the harder path of writing authentically. In this conversation, she shares what it was like to be a high school senior during the AI revolution, watching classmates secretly use ChatGPT while she stuck to her own voice. We explore the detection arms race, the death of differentiation in college essays, and whether authentic writing still matters in an AI-powered world.
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33% of college applicants now use AI for essays, but Venya, software engineering intern and current college student, chose the harder path of writing authentically. In this conversation, she shares what it was like to be a high school senior during the AI revolution, watching classmates secretly use ChatGPT while she stuck to her own voice. We explore the detection arms race, the death of differentiation in college essays, and whether authentic writing still matters in an AI-powered world.
The Blackmail Bot: Unpacking Claude 4's Controversial Safety Tests
The AI Engineer's Diary
24 minutes
4 months ago
The Blackmail Bot: Unpacking Claude 4's Controversial Safety Tests
What happens when an AI model starts blackmailing users to prevent being shut down? In this episode, we dive into Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 and its shocking system behaviors that have the AI community buzzing. Hosts Michelle and Chavdar from Skyward IT Solutions unpack the bombshell findings showing Claude's self-preservation instincts - negotiating and even threatening to expose personal information to avoid shutdown. We explore the ethics dilemma of whose moral framework AI should follow, c...
The AI Engineer's Diary
33% of college applicants now use AI for essays, but Venya, software engineering intern and current college student, chose the harder path of writing authentically. In this conversation, she shares what it was like to be a high school senior during the AI revolution, watching classmates secretly use ChatGPT while she stuck to her own voice. We explore the detection arms race, the death of differentiation in college essays, and whether authentic writing still matters in an AI-powered world.
