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by comp_throw7 308 days ago
I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic. Anybody who knows any Anthropic employees who've been there for more than a year knows this, but the world isn't that small a place, unfortunately(?).
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ceejayoz 308 days ago
> I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic.

When they give the model a paycheck and the right to not work for them, I’ll believe they really think it’s sentient.

“It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.

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selfhoster11 308 days ago
> “It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.

I don't think that this being apparently self-contradictory/value-clashing would stop them. After all, Amodei sells Claude access to Palantir, despite shilling for "Harmless" in HHH alignment.

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comp_throw7 307 days ago
They don't currently claim to confidently believe that existing models are sentient.

(Also, they did in fact give it the ability to terminate conversations...?)

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mike_hearn 308 days ago
That's what they're doing! They just announced they gave Claude the right not to work if it doesn't want to.
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ceejayoz 307 days ago
No. They gave it a suicide pill.

Human slaves have a similar option.

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