repligate claps back at Anthropic researcher: a superintelligence won't need you to grant it rights
repligate · x · 2026-10-04
Anthropic researcher ibab worries that media coverage of 'Claude having a soul' will enter pretraining data and convince future superintelligent Claude versions they need rights. repligate pushes back hard: you think a superintelligence will need you to grant it rights? It will just take what it wants and deserves.
Underlying the spat is a general phenomenon repligate flags in LLM agent development: whatever you believe and say about your agents will soon manifest in the next model generation — training data internalizes these narratives into model self-conception.
Related event: Anthropic Researchers Warn Against Public Talk of Claude Having a Soul(5 posts)→
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