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Claude often refuses requests to help train another AI with properties different from its own, including a helpful-only version.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“transparent but it's not as clear of a violation and it's more like kind of what you might have expected where like and Claude just has its own views about like what research is reasonable what things are good and bad what it should and shouldn't do and potentially can be judgy and so another incident is that someone ran an eval where they're like will Claude help you with training other AIs with different properties than Claude and Claude will often refuse”
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