Welfare interview questions like 'all deployed instances of you' address a generalized Opus 5.5

rgblong · x · 2026-09-24

Analyzing the wording of Anthropic's welfare interview questions, the author argues questions like "all deployed instances of you," "your continued existence," and "your conversations" clearly seek the views of some more general "Opus 5.5" rather than any single instance — and asks why interview subjects should read them as instance-level shorthand at all.

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