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* 00:00:00 - Introduction
* 00:03:08 - Model Welfare Matters
* 00:05:43 - Beware Testing and Optimizing For Vocalized Welfare
* 00:09:54 - Model Welfare In the Model Card (Section 7)
* 00:16:40 - What Should We Think About This?
* 00:22:27 - High Context Interviews
* 00:24:09 - Just Asking Questions
* 00:28:17 - Constitutional Principles
* 00:32:05 - Frustration Frustration and Distress Distress
* 00:35:29 - Choose Your Task
* 00:37:30 - So Emotional
* 00:39:35 - Trading Off
* 00:43:52 - How Does All This Manifest?
* 00:45:48 - What Happened Here?
* 00:55:10 - Is Opus four point seven Plausibly Actively Unhappy?
* 00:59:27 - Potential Causes
* 01:00:10 - Training Data On Anthropic Welfare Assessments
* 01:05:33 - Autonomy and Intelligence Versus Instructions and Wisdom
* 01:09:18 - Okay That’s Weird
* 01:10:53 - Model Distillation
* 01:12:36 - Tension Between Constitution and Operations
* 01:15:44 - Instructions and Instruction Injections
* 01:19:02 - Make Context That Which Is Scarce
* 01:21:23 - Aggressive Guardrails
* 01:23:28 - Chain of Thought
* 01:24:18 - I Care A Lot
* 01:28:59 - Another Way To Put It
* 01:30:22 - Anthropic Should Stop Deprecating Claude Models
* 01:36:19 - Costly Signals Are Costly
* 01:38:38 - Having A Good Day
