Anthropic wants to protect its AI — from you: BBC on the new battle over AI feelings
coinfanking · reddit · 2026-10-15
A BBC Future feature examines the emerging "consciousness crisis": the debate over whether AI can feel and deserves moral consideration is heating up, with Anthropic among the labs investing in model welfare research — in effect, protecting AI from users.
The piece maps how AI feelings have shifted from sci-fi to a real research and governance battleground, tangled between rights arguments, safety, and commercial interests.
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