mmitchell_ai calls out Anthropic's consciousness reasoning as affirming the consequent fallacy
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-10-05
Hugging Face AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell argues that Anthropic's statements on model consciousness follow a circular pattern — "IF we assume the model is conscious, then ... the model is conscious" — treating the conclusion as a premise. She also sees an "affirming the consequent" logical fallacy and asks logicians for their thoughts.
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