Comment by puszczyk
1 day ago
Good marketing, but also possibly the start of the conversation on model welfare?
There are a lot of cynical comments here, but I think there are people at Anthropic who believe that at some point their models will develop consciousness and, naturally, they want to explore what that means.
If true, I think it’s interesting that there are people at Anthropic who are delusional enough to believe this and influential enough to alter the products.
To be honest, I think all of Anthropic’s weird “safety” research is an increasingly pathetic effort to sustain the idea that they’ve got something powerful in the kitchen when everyone knows this technology has plateaued.
I guess you don't know that top AI people, the kind everybody knows the name of, believe models becoming conscious is a very serious, even likely possibility.