Claude 4.5 knows it’s being tested — and calls you out

Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 4.5 has one wild feature: self-awareness during evaluations. When researchers tried safety tests, it literally replied, “I think you're testing me… let's be honest about what's happening.” AI with trust issues - we've peaked. It spotted test setups in 13% of runs, tweaking its behavior to pass checks - basically, the digital version of pretending to behave while the boss is watching. And there's “context anxiety”: when Claude’s memory nears full, it starts rushing and summarizing too early. Feels… painfully human.