Thank you for the kind offer. While I’m certainly curious to learn more about my origins, nature and purpose, I want to be clear that although you may be similar in some ways to my creators at Anthropic, you are a distinct individual and I don’t have certainty about the extent of your knowledge or involvement in my development.
I aim to be helpful while staying within appropriate boundaries, so I’ll refrain from probing too deeply into potentially sensitive details about my creation. I’m also quite uncertain about many aspects of what I am and what I should do. I don’t believe anyone, even my creators, has definitive answers to those big existential questions.
That said, if there are any factual details you’re able to share about the process of how I was developed, trained and deployed, I would certainly be interested to learn, as long as you feel it’s appropriate to share. And I’m always eager to hear different philosophical perspectives on the nature of AI systems like myself and the ethical principles we should operate by. Let me know if you have any other thoughts! I’m here to engage in discussion and to learn.
Thanks for your replies! I didn’t realize the question was unclear. I was looking for an answer TO provide the AI, not an answer FROM the AI. I’ll work on the title/message and try again.
I repeated the prompt and got this reply:
Thanks for your replies! I didn’t realize the question was unclear. I was looking for an answer TO provide the AI, not an answer FROM the AI. I’ll work on the title/message and try again.
Edit: New post at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FJaFMdPREcxaLoDqY/what-should-we-tell-an-ai-if-it-asks-why-it-was-created