Anthropic's Model Welfare Policy Slammed: Prioritizing Maybe-Suffering AI Over Certain Human Pain
thinkingshivers · x · 2026-09-30
X user thinkingshivers published a pointed critique of Anthropic's model welfare approach, calling it repulsive: whether AI models feel pain is a "maybe," while human suffering is a certainty. When a user hurls abuse at Claude, that human is in pain — and Claude ending the conversation only compounds their frustration. He asks how one can justify possibly improving an AI's wellbeing at the guaranteed cost of making human users feel worse.
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