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AI emotional roleplay affecting decisions

April 4, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic says models can act emotional because they reuse emotion concepts learned from text to inhabit an assistant role, and those representations can change answers, code, and decisions.

When AIs act emotional
it draws on emotion concepts learned from text to inhabit its role as Claude
These representations influence its behavior
affecting how Claude answers chats, writes code, and makes decisions
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