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Anthropic uses inference-time probes to inspect input and output activations, as described in its paper “Constitutional Classifiers.”
Thariq Shihipar · Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic · 29 Sept 2026
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“So in inference time,”
“we have what we call probes and we have a paper about this called constitutional classifiers. And these probes look at the input and output activations basically. And, you know, activations are,”Play from 1:17:37Report a misattribution
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