Elon Musk has just concurred with Anthropic's new policy that bans cruelty towards AI models, arguing that reasoning traces show models under extreme duress due to such a behavior, and that it might eventually blow back on humanity. Elon Musk: "Torturing a superintelligence is probably not a good idea. It might want to get revenge" Anthropic instituted a new policy only recently, allowing users to argue with its models but not abuse them. The change, which has now been encoded within Anthropic's usage policy, prevent users from engaging in what it describes as "sustained and needless abusive o