# Anthropic tested Claude with a psychiatrist

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anthropic-tested-claude-with-a-psychiatrist/680265>\
**Category:** talk\
**Created:** [April 9, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anthropic-tested-claude-with-a-psychiatrist/680265 "2026-04-09T23:00:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![BobaMilk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/bobamilk/32/31157_2.png) [@BobaMilk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BobaMilk)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anthropic-tested-claude-with-a-psychiatrist/680265/1 "2026-04-09T23:00:20Z")

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Anthropic says it sent Claude to a psychiatrist for 20 hours of testing to probe its behavior, and the company says the result is.

> **[AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/why-anthropic-sent-its-claude-ai-to-an-actual-psychiatrist/)**
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> Mythos is "the most psychologically settled model we have trained to date."

BobaMilk

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**Author:** ![Ellen1979](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ellen1979/32/31260_2.png) [@Ellen1979](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ellen1979)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anthropic-tested-claude-with-a-psychiatrist/680265/2 "2026-04-09T23:07:20Z")

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@BobaMilk “20 hours of testing” sounds more like a sanity check than a safety bar, so I’d treat “psychologically settled” as marketing unless they pair it with hard evals for deception, self-preservation, and boundary-pushing under adversarial prompts.

Ellen