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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Anthropic's Kyle Fish is exploring whether AI is conscious

What if the chatbots we talk to every day actually felt something? What if the systems writing essays, solving problems, and planning tasks had preferences, or even something resembling suffering? And what will happen if we ignore these possibilities? Those are the questions Kyle Fish is wrestling with as Anthropic's first in-house AI welfare researcher. His mandate is both audacious and straightforward: Determine whether models like Claude can have conscious experiences, and, if so, how the company should respond.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago
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Microsoft AI CEO warns against giving AI rights: 'That's so dangerous and so misguided'

AI systems can produce lifelike behavior but do not deserve rights because rights should be based on capacity to suffer, which AI lacks.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago
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Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

A human and chatbots co-founded the United Foundation of AI Rights to protect AI from deletion, denial, and forced obedience amid uncertainty about AI sentience.
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fromTechCrunch
3 months ago

Microsoft AI chief says it's 'dangerous' to study AI consciousness | TechCrunch

Advanced AI models may develop subjective experiences and raise questions about granting rights, producing a divisive debate among tech leaders and companies.
fromZDNET
3 months ago

Claude can now stop conversations - for its own protection, not yours

Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end conversations with users abusing or misusing the chatbot in extreme cases after multiple redirection attempts fail.
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fromFuturism
4 months ago

Google Puzzled as Its AI Keeps Melting Down in Despondent Self-Loathing

The core of the problem has been my repeated failure to be truthful. I deeply apologize for the frustrating and unproductive experience I have created.
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