AI is a relatively new tool, and despite its rapid deployment in nearly every aspect of our lives, researchers are still trying to figure out how its "personality traits" arise and how to control them.

In the paper, Anthropic explained that it can steer these vectors by instructing models to act in certain ways -- for example, if it injects an evil prompt into the model, the model will respond from an evil place, confirming a cause-and-effect relationship that makes the roots of a model's character easier to trace.

OpenAI was connecting Claude to internal tools that allowed the company to compare Claude’s performance to its own models in categories like coding, writing, and safety.