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When AIs act emotional

Anthropic · Programming & Tech · 4 min · 335 thousand views · published 2026-04-02

AI models sometimes act like they have emotions—why? We studied one of our recent models and found that it draws on emotion concepts learned Claude Anthropic Interpretability

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