Anthropic’s ‘ridiculous … earnest’ belief AI may suffer makes it all the more dangerous: ‘Watch for what’s coming’ says expert

Source: New York Post

Anthropic’s bosses aren’t faking it when they say their chatbot may be able to suffer — and that’s terrifying, according to a leading computer scientist. A New York Times piece last week reported that Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah has been meeting with various religious scholars and leaders for months, telling them that the company’s chatbot, Claude, may be conscious and able to suffer. 5 An illustration imagines what suffering might look like for artificial intelligence.