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I got a popup in the Claude app asking to interview me. This seems to be Anthropic Interviewer, being pushed to the public. I feel uncertain about whether I should take it (here); I would like to hear what people here think.
Unless you expect Anthropic to be dishonest about the privacy claims they make (I'm not a huge fan of them, but I don't expect they'd do this), the tradeoff boils down to the ~30 minutes of your time it would take versus the probably-negligible impact that taking the interview would have within their pool of many millions of users.
I do think that the viewpoint of the median LWer is probably already represented beyond the level that an AI interview would provide, so it's not a dereliction of duty by any means if you decide not to take it.
I had this popup the other day and I did the interview. It wasn't anything too exciting. It started with a prompt telling me not to reveal any personal information or commercially sensitive information, and said that at the end I could choose between my comments being made publicly available (I guess used in Anthropic Institute reports?) or just made available to Anthropic. The questions I remember were:
1. What was the last thing you used AI for?
2. Are there any occasions on which using AI has benefited you?
3. Followup to 2: Did others benefit from this apart from you?
4. Are there any occasions on which AI has had a negative impact on you?
5. What are your worries about AI?
6. Looking forward, are there any benefits you are hoping will come from AI?
7. How do you feel about how Anthropic is developing AI? Is there anything you wish Anthropic would do differently?
8. Any other comments?
I chose to only share my answers with Anthropic because one of the examples I used was a slightly unusual anecdote which some of my friends have heard about.