Opinion | Anthropic’s Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’ - The New York Times

kept by eddie feb 13

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discusses uncertain AI consciousness and shares both utopian and dystopian near-term predictions for artificial intelligence.

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