Comment by orbital-decay
2 days ago
No, the article is pretty unambiguous, they care about Claude in it, and only mention users tangentially. By model welfare they literally mean model welfare. It's not new. Read another article they link: https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare
?! Your interpretation is inconsistent with the article you linked!
> Should we be concerned about model welfare, too? … This is an open question, and one that’s both philosophically and scientifically difficult.
> For now, we remain deeply uncertain about many of the questions that are relevant to model welfare.
They are saying they are researching the topic; they explicitly say they don’t know the answer yet.
They care about finding the answer. If the answer is e.g. “Claude can feel pain and/or is sentient” then we’re in a different ball game.