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Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

57 points · 91 comments · Topfi

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. Topfi · 1791059316 · focus · HN ↗
  Agreed, there seems to be a lot of simultaneous cake ownership and consumption going on here. If Anthropic earnestly believed their LLMs to have a degree of consciousness, their deployment and use of them are both an ethics and labour rights disaster, to be treated accordingly.
  More likely, they do not believe this if pressed.
  1. thereader12 · 1791061828 · focus · HN ↗
    There is an uncomfortable truth about AI and the end goal. Someone has to do labor, in the not too distant past a lot of labor was done one way. A honest look may not be too flattering about what exactly they are trying to create

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