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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · How Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the…
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Why Did Angela Jiang Read So Many Books?
Angela Jiang read something like 200 books in a year because work had left her bored and no longer intellectually challenged.
She missed the muscle-building of school, where a new topic is tough, not super fun, and still forces a real stretch. After a couple of years on the job, the work stayed interesting and challenging, but it lacked that intellectual bit. A very long Caltrain commute made the reading bender a good use of time, and she came out of it thinking a lot. The writing was not meant to build a Twitter following. She had no followers and was tweeting into the abyss, practicing how to compress an idea into as few words as possible. People started liking the posts, she kept going,
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What Is Anthropic's Access Program?
Angela Jiang says Anthropic's access program lets an approved user run advanced cyber capabilities on a model such as Opus. A defensive user applies with a use case, and approval diminishes the safeguards on that user's version of the model so the user can pursue the cyber activities. Anthropic would not loosen safeguards for everyone.
The team built the program to hand specific programs out to customers. Each approval needs a per-use-case review and is scoped to a particular user. While designing the verification-style portal and the grants for specific model capabilities, they chose a more generic design because they did not know whether the same pieces would serve other jobs. The generic