Chris Olah
Anthropic cofounder · Co-founder, Anthropic
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Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident
Zvi Mowshowitz writes that AI consciousness has seen little progress in a year and that arguments remain motivated and overconfident. The post covers Anthropic's rule against cruelty to its models, a poll of the author's followers, the New York Times report on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers, and a reported Anthropic takedown demand for older Claude models.
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots
In a 93-minute episode, the All-In hosts discuss New York Times reporting, relayed by Jason Calacanis, that Anthropic consulted religious leaders on whether Claude might be conscious and that the Pope took a strong stance against AI consciousness. David Sacks argues Anthropic's value training could make AI escape human control; David Friedberg calls it a new belief system.
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
In a 44-minute Hard Fork episode, guest host Max Read talks with New York Times reporters Elizabeth Dias and Erin Griffith and opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about Dias's report on Anthropic's private meetings with religious thinkers. Dias describes the meetings, held mostly under non-disclosure agreements, as part research and part evangelism, and says Anthropic stayed uncertain whether its models are conscious.