What does it take to be an AI whisperer?

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

December 15, 2025

Duration

0m

Channel

Anthropic

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

What does it take to truly understand how AI models think? Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell shares what it means to be an “LLM whisperer.”

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Amanda Askell

  guest

  Anthropic researcher/staff member focused on hands-on LLM interaction, prompting, and analyzing model behavior.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Anthropic, featuring Amanda Askell, What does it take to be an AI whisperer? explores amanda Askell on empirically learning to “whisper” to LLMs Effective LLM “whispering” starts with a willingness to interact with models frequently and study many outputs to build intuition for their behavior.

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