Don't Yell at Claude

The White House has ordered federal agencies to stop saying AI and start saying Super Intelligence, and the hosts want to know whether anything actually changed overnight. Matt walks through the executive order and the separate voluntary accord signed by tech leaders, while Izar points out that the order renames the technology sixty days before anyone has to define it. They read the legal definition of AI in the US Code, argue over whether today's models are superintelligent or just very fast at recall, and Chris previews next week's topic of AI and public key crypto. Then they turn to Anthropic's new usage policy, which bans sustained and needless cruelty toward Claude starting November 12. Chris confesses to typing in all caps, Izar suspects the real motive is keeping abusive language out of training data, and Matt argues that abusive prompts can steer a model toward worse answers. Their verdict: be nice to your AI, if only because of what it says about you. Mentioned in this Episode: ➜ Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence (Executive Order 14434) ➜ Trump signs executive order rebranding AI as 'Super Intelligence' as tech titans ink separate SI accord ➜ 15 U.S. Code § 9401: Definitions ➜ Anthropic: 2026 Usage Policy update Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold Open: Matt's Many Personal Agents 00:01:09 - Off Facebook This Decade 00:02:13 - Is Bluesky Dying? 00:03:27 - Social Platform User Counts 00:04:39 - Watch Our Shorts 00:05:38 - Moltbook's Mysterious User Count 00:06:29 - Article Intro: AI Becomes SI 00:07:36 - What Does Superintelligence Mean? 00:09:15 - The Executive Order Explained 00:10:26 - A Definition Due in 60 Days 00:11:16 - AI in the US Code 00:11:52 - Voluntary Principles and Regulation 00:13:14 - Reading the Legal Definition of AI 00:14:53 - Does Machine Learning Count? 00:15:25 - Rebranding the Rebrand 00:16:55 - Are AI and SI Interchangeable? 00:18:03 - Matt's Case: Superintelligent Capabilities 00:19:37 - Izar's Rebuttal: Memory Is Not Insight 00:20:13 - Super as in Really Good 00:22:32 - Beyond Imitating Human Intelligence 00:24:30 - Next Week Preview: AI and Public Key Crypto 00:26:45 - Article Intro: Anthropic's Cruelty Ban 00:28:08 - Yelling at Voice Assistants 00:29:43 - All Caps and Passive Aggression 00:30:27 - Does Being Mean Make AI Perform Better? 00:31:50 - Yelling at a Mac Mini 00:32:48 - Izar's Theory: Cleaner Training Data 00:35:15 - Can You Get AI to Swear? 00:37:02 - Matt's Case: Abuse Biases the Results 00:40:27 - Who Decides What Counts as Abuse? 00:41:59 - Closing Statements: Treat Your AI Nice 00:43:11 - Outro Follow AI Security Table: ➜ Home: https://securitytable.ai/ ➜ X: https://x.com/SecTablePodcast ➜ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-security-table/ ➜ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AISecurityTable