Hunter Ash
@ArtemisConsort
Anthropic tried to get the Pope to say Claude is, or could soon be, conscious. If Anthropic wants to assert this, they can do so themselves. I think it’s highly dishonest to try to launder this claim through the head of a religion very few at Anthropic believe in.
Christopher Hale@ChristopherHale · Oct 2NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s
Open quoted post →Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s
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