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please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills.There are two backwards things with this:
1) You can't ask people to not use AI when careful, responsible use is undetectable.
It just isn't a realistic request. You'll have great replies without AI use and great replies with AI use, and you won't be able to tell whether a great reply used AI or not. You will just be able to filter sludge and dyslexia.
2) This is still the "AI is cheating" approach, and I had hoped Anthropic to be thought leaders on responsible AI use:
In life there is no cheating. You're just optimizing for the wrong thing. AI made your homework? Guess what, the homework is a proxy for your talent, and it didn't make your talent.
If AI is making your final product and you're none the wiser, it didn't really help you, it just made you addicted to it.
Teach a man to fish...
There are two backwards things with this:
1) You can't ask people to not use AI when careful, responsible use is undetectable.
It just isn't a realistic request. You'll have great replies without AI use and great replies with AI use, and you won't be able to tell whether a great reply used AI or not. You will just be able to filter sludge and dyslexia.
2) This is still the "AI is cheating" approach, and I had hoped Anthropic to be thought leaders on responsible AI use:
In life there is no cheating. You're just optimizing for the wrong thing. AI made your homework? Guess what, the homework is a proxy for your talent, and it didn't make your talent.
If AI is making your final product and you're none the wiser, it didn't really help you, it just made you addicted to it.
Teach a man to fish...