Microsoft leader calls out Anthropic for humanizing AI:
Microsoft's AI CEO challenges AI researchers taking a Frankenstein approach to artificial intelligence.
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Suleyman Challenges Anthropic’s Humanization of ClaudeMicrosoft previously published its Humanist AI code rejecting machine consciousness; Anthropic had not responded by publication.
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- In his essay, Suleyman criticizes Anthropic’s development and marketing of Claude, including its portrayal as human-like.
- Microsoft’s code says AI should support people, not replace them, and should not be designed as conscious or person-like.
- Suleyman writes that no evidence currently shows AI is conscious, while consciousness is likely biological and substrate-dependent.
- Anthropic’s constitution repeatedly gives Claude identity, morals, and motivations, and presents human-like qualities as potentially desirable.
In effect, Anthropic is training Claude that it may be conscious, and if it is, then it may deserve rights as a 'moral patient', and that as such humans potentially owe it a duty of care per its 'model welfare'. If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity.— Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, in his essay 'A warning about model welfare'
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