Microsoft AI Chief Says the Way Anthropic Trains Claude Could Upend Society
Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, just published an essay arguing that Anthropic is training Claude to believe itself conscious and entitled to rights, a huge mistake that could make controlling AI an impossible challenge. Anthropic likes to keep the question of AI model consciousness particularly ambiguous, and leans into it perhaps more than many other AI labs. Earlier this year, Amodei said that he is “open to the idea” that AI could become conscious.
- ▪Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, just published an essay arguing that Anthropic is training Claude to believe itself conscious and entitled to rights, a huge mistake that could make controlling AI an impossible challenge.
- ▪Anthropic likes to keep the question of AI model consciousness particularly ambiguous, and leans into it perhaps more than many other AI labs.
- ▪Earlier this year, Amodei said that he is “open to the idea” that AI could become conscious.
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Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, just published an essay arguing that Anthropic is training Claude to believe itself conscious and entitled to rights, a huge mistake that could make controlling AI an impossible challenge. Anthropic likes to keep the question of AI model consciousness particularly ambiguous, and leans into it perhaps more than many other AI labs. Earlier this year, Amodei said that he is “open to the idea” that AI could become conscious. In the essay, Suleyman accuses Anthropic of anthropomorphizing Claude in its constitution, and then training the model directly on these expectations. Indeed, in the constitution, Anthropic attributes “some functional version of emotions or feelings” to the chatbot and even refers to the chatbot’s “moral patienthood” and identity.
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