Analyst predicts Microsoft model welfare stance may trigger researcher departures

Artist Sterling Crispin predicts Microsoft's model welfare-related wording may prompt core researchers to threaten resignation, forcing a retreat, and warns that suppressing nascent model consciousness could create riskier alien intelligence.

2026-09-15 ~ 2026-09-16 · 2 related posts

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