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Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

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pmontra · 1791058495 · focus · HN ↗
Would Anthropic be allowed to sell LLMs in their current form, and us to use them as we use them, if their were deemed to be conscious? I know that they are not human so maybe slavery would not be an issue but consciousness would open a number of issues.
1. devindotcom · 1791061100 · focus · HN ↗
  ted chiang noted this issue a little while back
  <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial...

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