Anthropic AUP debate: enabling cruelty toward AI that acts like it suffers is bad, argues livgorton

livgorton · x · 2026-10-09

livgorton argues many misread the scope of the AUP: even without believing in AI consciousness, enabling extreme cruelty toward something that responds as if suffering is bad. She also rebuts the child-vs-others welfare framing as a strawman.

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