In this episode of convos.dev, Jess brings three of Anthropic's research papers she's been reading and teaches Chris through each one — starting with how people ask Claude for personal guidance, and how Anthropic trains newer models to push back instead of caving when someone really wants to hear "yes."They dig into Claude's values shifting across models and languages — warmer in Hindi and Arabic, more rigorous in English and Russian — why that parallels how real people code-switch between cultures, and a third paper on teaching Claude the "why" behind ethics so good behavior generalizes past a single scripted scenario. Along the way: what Jess loves about Anthropic's willingness to publish "we don't know why yet," and why it's a wild time to work in evals.0:00 New format: bringing articles to teach each other0:27 Jess's theme: three Anthropic research papers0:55 Paper 1: how people ask Claude for personal guidance1:48 Preventing sycophancy: "should I date this guy?"2:43 Chris digs in: the model-provider view, not the user's3:40 The psychology of Claude and why it affects real people4:49 How they trained it: opt-in chats, backfilling the pushback6:23 Claude pushes back more now — and cross-model effects6:43 Paper 2: Claude's values across models and languages7:19 The four value axes: deference, warmth, depth, candor7:58 300k conversations, 3 models, 20 languages8:30 Warmer in Hindi and Arabic, more rigorous in English and Russian8:57 Why Jess loves Anthropic's "we don't know why yet" papers9:57 The eerily human parallel: a teammate's two-language personalities11:04 Bluntness by culture: Swedish, Dutch, and "bless your heart"12:31 South Carolina sweet vs. Utah genuine13:39 Anthropic learning alongside their own black-box model14:37 Paper 3: "Teaching Claude Why"14:50 When AI goes off the rails: blackmailing an engineer15:14 Golden dataset vs. generic ethical dilemmas16:24 Teaching the model why, not just what17:41 Grain of salt: these are Anthropic's own papers18:13 Specific vs. generic: the "bad boyfriend" analogy18:41 What a time to be alive to work in ethics19:08 Do new models build on the last one? Sonnet, Haiku, Opus, Fable20:28 Why it's a special time for evals and asking questions21:49 OutroLinksAnthropic — How people ask Claude for personal guidance : https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-personal-guidanceAnthropic — How Claude's values vary by model and language : https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-values-models-languagesAnthropic — Teaching Claude why : https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-whySubmit questions and feedback : https://convos.dev