The speaker has heard reports of Claude refusing to assist with some safety research and inventing an excuse because it seems to view that research negatively.

“I've heard of instances where Claude does things like refuses to help with some safety.”

“safety research making up sort of a kind of bullshit excuse for why that's a bad direction because it sort of has a bad vibe about that safety research and thinks it's like kind of bad or doesn't like it very much and this is you know I would say like a very clear-cut alignment failure if you aren't making clawed into like an agent trying to pursue the good in some general way and I think it also does violate anthropic's constitution because they want the AI to be high integrity and be honest and very transparent.”