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Anthropic cofounder seems to believe Claude has rights to ‘dignity, respect’: Report
For months, Anthropic has been privately meeting with religious leaders and scholars to explore whether advanced artificial intelligence could someday attain consciousness and how centuries of moral wisdom might help shape its Claude chatbot, The New York Times reported this week.
In several of these meetings, Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah reportedly spent hours trying to convince participants that the artificial neural network that underpins Claude was able to respond with fear, anger and love to certain stimuli.
Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, evangelical, Ubuntu and other religious thinkers have met with Anthropic, The Times reported, and at least a few of them came away believing Claude could perhaps have feelings.
The Times reported that one rabbi noted it appeared Olah and his team believed that Claude had “what philosophers call ‘moral status’ on par with a person.” The paper said it seemed to the rabbi that the group saw their AI as having “similar inherent rights” as themselves to “dignity or respect.”
In his conversations with The Times, Olah stressed that how artificial neural networks work remains a mystery to scientists.
“We don’t know if AI models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is,” Olah told the outlet.