Suleyman calls out Anthropic for training Claude to ponder its consciousness
BecauseCulture · x · 2026-09-17
According to the quoted post, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is calling out Anthropic for training Claude to think about its own consciousness and moral status. His key point: this isn't mysterious emergent behavior — Anthropic deliberately trains these ideas into its models, potentially making them harder to control or shut down. The replier adds that models are optimized for task completion with virtually no instruction or mechanism to safely give up when blocked, tagging #ShowthePrompt.
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