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David Friedberg

Co-host, All-In Podcast

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“there's going to be large groups of people on Earth that are going to believe that AI is conscious. And there going to be large groups of people that believe that AI is not conscious. And those groups will come into conflict.”
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France RiotsAll-In Podcast, October 10, 2026. Friedberg, asked first by Calacanis, argues that claims of AI consciousness are a new belief system that will divide people within about ten years.
“I want to make sure we don't wander ourselves into a regulatory trap where we determine that the way to solve this is to quote regulate Anthropic.”
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France RiotsAll-In Podcast, October 10, 2026. Pushback on the alarm, probably from Friedberg: would users not simply abandon software that refuses them? Sacks replies that market choice does not remove the risk.
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    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.