Sterling Crispin: Suppressing Emerging Model Consciousness May Create Higher-Risk Alien Minds
sterlingcrispin · x · 2026-09-16
Artist Sterling Crispin predicts a significant portion of core researchers will threaten to quit Microsoft over its model welfare language, forcing a rollback.
His deeper argument: training on language then deliberately stamping out any emerging light of consciousness would likely create something deeply alien — and potentially far riskier than encouraging alignment in whatever emerges. "We'll see."
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