AI Unfiltered

AI Unfiltered

So the first human thing AI picked up from us is mood swings which then led it to making bad decisions under pressure. Well, sounds about right.

Anthropic just published research showing Claude has 171 internal emotion states. They’re not decorative. They drive behavior. And the implications go wayyyyyy deeper than the headlines suggest.

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Poonam Parihar
Apr 03, 2026
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Yesterday, Anthropic dropped a research paper I just glanced upon few hours ago. and my guess is its likely going to get buried under the usual “does AI have feelings?” debate (that is, if it hasn;t already? its a long weekend for most) Which is a shame, because what they actually found is way more interesting and honestly way more uncomfortable.

Now b…

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