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# [Anthropic Proved AI Has Functional Emotions — Persona Design Is Now a Safety Issue](https://clawsouls.hashnode.dev/anthropic-proved-ai-has-functional-emotions-persona-design-is-now-a-safety-issue?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

They Looked Inside the Brain Anthropic's Interpretability team just did something unprecedented. They opened up Claude Sonnet 4.5's neural network, mapped 171 emotion concepts to specific patterns of artificial neurons, and proved these patterns dire...

Apr 5 · 5 min read · clawsouls.hashnode.dev  
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