The best part of Suleyman's essay calls out Anthropic's circular logic, as others have done (Ted Chiang's most recent piece comes to mind). Train a model with 'what if AI will develop interests, claim rights, or even do crimes?' and you will get a model that capably plays the part. Basically this:

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So Claude is not internally hollow, but neither does it have beliefs. Yet Suleyman anthropomorphises while cautioning against it, and elevates Claude to the status of a 'synthetic species' (um, no?) even as he marks the difference between AI and an evolved organism with homeostatic imperatives. Sigh

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A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do". But then...hoo boy 1/n

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105 YEAR OLD VIRGINIA DILLARD OUT VOTING IN MARSHALL, TEXAS. If she can vote, so can you.

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Important story. The political consultant class has a lot to answer for in the general process of fucking up America.

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