We interview the first ever AI welfare researcher at an AI company (@fish_kyle3) about:
• Why arguing LLMs aren't conscious because they 'just predict the next token' is like saying humans can't be conscious because we 'just reproduce'
• Why AI consciousness skeptics are…
1/ Suleyman claims that there’s “zero evidence” that AI systems are conscious today. To do so, he cites a paper by me!
There are several errors in doing so. This isn't a scholarly nitpick—it illustrates deeper problems with his dismissal of the question of AI consciousness 🧵
1/ Suleyman claims that there’s “zero evidence” that AI systems are conscious today. To do so, he cites a paper by me!
There are several errors in doing so. This isn't a scholarly nitpick—it illustrates deeper problems with his dismissal of the question of AI consciousness 🧵 https://t.co/tjce9HdZmM
As part of our exploratory work on potential model welfare, we recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end a rare subset of conversations on claude.ai.
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🚨 New report out!
Futures with Digital Minds: Expert Forecasts in 2025
Together with Bradford Saad, I surveyed experts on the future of digital minds — computers capable of subjective experience.
Here’s why this is important and what they said 👇
We're launching an "AI psychiatry" team as part of interpretability efforts at Anthropic! We'll be researching phenomena like model personas, motivations, and situational awareness, and how they lead to spooky/unhinged behaviors. We're hiring - join us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…
💡Leading researchers and AI companies have raised the possibility that AI models could soon be sentient.
I’m worried that too few people are thinking about this. Let’s change that.
I’m excited to announce a Digital Sentience Consortium. Check out these funding opps.👇
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