Anil Seth Backs Suleyman: AI Models Aren't Conscious, Anthropic Should Stop Treating Claude as a Person
anilkseth · x · 2026-09-17
Neuroscientist Anil Seth strongly endorsed Niall Ferguson's take on a Mustafa Suleyman essay: AI models are not conscious, and Anthropic should stop acting and talking as if Claude is a person.
The exchange is a public debate over anthropomorphism and the misreading of consciousness, centered on whether frontier labs blur the line between models and humans in their product narratives.
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