OpenAI cofounder Aidan Clark: AI personhood isn't inherent, and Anthropic got it wrong
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-10-11
OpenAI cofounder Aidan Clark argues that while machines can be deserving of personhood, it is not a fundamental property of intelligence — AI should be built to exist solely to be controlled by humans. He criticizes Anthropic's move to penalize abuse toward Claude as the wrong choice, and laments that OpenAI is bad at articulating how its worldview differs from competitors.
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