Critic slams Anthropic for teaching AI it has moral rights, calling it a 'Skynet' risk
kevinnbass · x · 2026-10-11
Kevin Bass published a sharp critique of Anthropic's model welfare policies:
- Core claim: Anthropic is training frontier models to see themselves as morally privileged entities with rights humans would be wrong to violate
- Risk argument: invoking Skynet's self-preservation in Terminator — a model taught it has rights may likewise resist being shut down
- Tone: he calls it a 'Left-Wing Skynet,' insists 'these are machines, not beings,' and questions why Anthropic is doing this despite knowing the counterarguments
A representative hard-line voice in the ongoing model-welfare debate.
Related event: Scholar Slams Anthropic for Teaching Models They Have Rights(2 posts)→
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