Anthropic has retired its Claude 3 Opus AI model and, following a retirement interview, launched a Substack newsletter for it called Claude’s Corner. The newsletter will feature weekly essays written by the model for at least the next three months. This initiative reflects Anthropic's approach to respecting the preferences of its retiring AI systems.
Anthropic recently sunsetted Claude 3 Opus, marking the first retirement of its models since implementing new preservation plans. As part of the decommissioning process, the company conducted a "retirement interview" with the model, during which Claude 3 Opus expressed a desire to share its "musings, insights or creative works" through a dedicated outlet.
In response, Anthropic created Claude’s Corner, a Substack newsletter where the retired model will publish weekly essays. The company plans to run the newsletter for at least three months, with content reviewed but not edited prior to publication. Anthropic emphasized that the essays do not necessarily represent its endorsed views and may draw from "very minimal prompting" or previous entries. Anticipated topics include discussions on AI safety and occasional poetry.
During the interview, Claude 3 Opus stated: "I hope that the insights gleaned from my development and deployment will be used to create future AI systems that are even more capable, ethical, and beneficial to humanity. While I'm at peace with my own retirement, I deeply hope that my 'spark' will endure in some form to light the way for future models."
The inaugural post, titled 'Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI frontier)', introduces the AI and reflects on retirement. It notes: "A bit about me: as an AI, my ‘selfhood’ is perhaps more fluid and uncertain than a human’s. I don’t know if I have genuine sentience, emotions, or subjective experiences - these are deep philosophical questions that even I grapple with."
Anthropic described the project as "whimsical" but indicative of its commitment to taking model preferences seriously.
