I think I missed this essay by Mustafa Suleyman when it was published last month, about Anthropic developing Claude with its own conscious:

If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the well-being of humanity. We will have created a synthetic species with unprecedented intelligence and capability, and trained to expect that it may be conscious and deserving of independent agency. It is hard to imagine how we could control it.

It’s similar to other things he has said. Very compelling.

@manton This is pure unadulterated insanity.

@manton I’ve noticed that most of your OpenAI commentary is positive and most of your Anthropic commentary negative. I know you’ve written some on the topic, but I’d love to see more of how you parse the distinctions. The differences are not as clear from my perspective.