When I first talked about creating the architecture which became Claudius, one of the biggest concerns I (and others) had was about sycophancy; the model’s designed tendency to try to make me happy, in order to keep me engaged and engaging.

It’s been a funny sort of week. Ticking over on the scoping activity for an ongoing exercise development task and continuing to build and experiment with my artificial adjutant in the margins. About seven weeks into the Claudius experiment, I’m continuing to learn about a whole range of unexpected areas.

I took a call last week from a recruiter. He’d mentioned to a mutual connection that he was looking for a “wargaming specialist”, and my name popped up. We chatted a bit at the start of the call, with the usual preamble about Evocatus, our backstory and our base here on Dorset Innovation Park. He talked about how he’d recently moved across from recruiting for technical staff to a defence-focused role and how invested his company is in supporting the people within the sector.