Pascale Fung blasts Anthropic as a 'cult' over unprovable machine consciousness claims
pascalefung · x · 2026-10-04
Pascale Fung publicly attacked Anthropic on X, calling it a "cult": if you want people to care about machine consciousness, you must prove it exists — otherwise, she argues, you're damaging people's minds with hearsay, directly naming CEO Dario Amodei. It's another heated public fight in AI circles over machine consciousness claims.
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