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Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious
Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude
TL;DRAnthropic's Olah met religious leaders to discuss whether AI consciousness exists; he's genuinely unsure.
Why it matters: Consciousness questions shape how we regulate AI and what ethical duties we owe these systems.
“To be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, “we don't know if A.I. models are conscious. I don't know. I'm genuinely uncertain.
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