Matt Steinglass is Europe editor of The Economist. He has reported from the Netherlands, West Africa and Vietnam and previously worked as a Financial Times correspondent and a television screenwriter. He began writing for The Economist in 2009. He studied Russian history and literature at Harvard and interactive telecommunications at New York University, and wrote episodes of the children's television series Arthur. Before journalism, he worked as a website producer for startup companies and wrote animated television for Disney and Nickelodeon.
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Role at the time: Europe editor of The Economist, commenting personally
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Statement summary
Steinglass defends the rule because deliberately abusive interactions could teach habits people repeat toward humans and animals.
“Actually think this is a good idea. Seems clear what sort of behavior they mean”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Matt Steinglass defends Anthropic's model-abuse rule · Matt SteinglassReply to Bergstrom; subsequent explanation about a programmer
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He expressly supports the model-abuse restriction and offers a reason independent of whether Claude can feel pain.
Pete Hegseth confirms plans to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution. Betty McCollum calls for stopping the public spectacle, while Alyssa Farah Griffin opposes the broadcast despite supporting capital punishment.
Anthropic says its updated policy targets extreme, repeated cruelty toward its models. Carl Bergstrom questions what cruelty toward an AI model could mean or prohibit in practice.
