Comment by comp_throw7
2 days ago
I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic. Anybody who knows any Anthropic employees who've been there for more than a year knows this, but the world isn't that small a place, unfortunately(?).
> I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic.
When they give the model a paycheck and the right to not work for them, I’ll believe they really think it’s sentient.
“It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.
> “It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.
I don't think that this being apparently self-contradictory/value-clashing would stop them. After all, Amodei sells Claude access to Palantir, despite shilling for "Harmless" in HHH alignment.
They don't currently claim to confidently believe that existing models are sentient.
(Also, they did in fact give it the ability to terminate conversations...?)
That's what they're doing! They just announced they gave Claude the right not to work if it doesn't want to.
No. They gave it a suicide pill.
Human slaves have a similar option.