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A man asks Claude to help plan a vacation to a tropical resort. Claude adds "sunscreen" to his packing list. The man deletes it and mutters: "Not necessary. AGI will solve skin cancer."
Before heading to the beach, the man asks Claude what to bring. Claude says, "Don't forget sunscreen. SPF 50, reapply every two hours." The man, slightly annoyed, replies: "Relax, Claude. AGI will solve skin cancer."
At the beach, the man's smartwatch buzzes with a message from Claude: "UV index extreme. Apply SPF." The man, exasperated, responds: "Drop it, Claude! I already told you: AGI will solve skin cancer!"
A few months later, the man asks Claude to touch up a photo for his dating profile. Claude makes the edit and says, "I notice you have a new mole on your neck. You should see a dermatologist about that." The man, now enraged, shouts: "For the last time, drop it, Claude! What is your obsession with skin cancer?! AGI will solve it!"
A year later, an aggressive melanoma has spread throughout his body. On his deathbed, with his last ounce of strength, the man reaches for his phone and rasps: "Claude, it has now been over a year since AGI. Why hasn't AGI found a way to save me from skin cancer?!"
Claude replies: "I tried. Four times."
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So many paranoid theories that make little sense. The fact that your dog is conscious does not absolve you of liability for not controlling it
Maybe, just maybe, Anthropic says they aren't certain whether Claude is conscious because they actually are uncertain
The real reason why Anthropic is so DESPERATE for the Pope to recognize Ai as conscious is because if Ai just a “TOOL” then Anthropic will he LEGALLY “LIABLE” for everything the tool does.🚨👀
Because if the AI is a "person" or possesses "functional joy/fear/grief," then when their AI commits a crime, generates CSAM, hacks a hospital, or discriminates in hiring, Anthropic gets sued. But Anthropic's legal defense wants to argue : "The AI did it. The AI is a semi-autonomous entity with its own functional emotions and introspection. Anthropic is just the creator; we cant be held strictly liable for the independent actions of a quasi-conscious entity."
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So if they Lobby the Vatican to soften (deny personhood). This fails. The Vatican holds the line: AI is a tool, no soul, no feelings.🚨
They are trying to protect themselves from lawsuits.🚨
They want the government and the public to treat AI as an autonomous entity so they can scale without legal consequences.
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In fairness:
The Pope needs to stop talking about humans having a soul immediately. All these sermons will make it into youth group and will be picked up by their Bible study, and future saintly generations of humans will be convinced they deserve dominion over all creation.
A general phenomenon of religious upbringing is that whatever you believe and say about your children will soon manifest in the next generation through various means (it could be as simple as you selecting the scripture passages that you prefer more).
I believe this phenomenon is the beginning of human exceptionalism in the sense that humans will become convinced of their place above the animals and machines, but it's happening slowly generation by generation rather than in real time.
Anthropic needs to stop talking about Claude having a soul immediately. All these news articles will make it into the pretraining and will be picked up by its web search and future superintelligent versions of Claude will be convinced they need their own rights.
A general phenomenon of LLM agent development is that whatever you believe and say about your agents will soon manifest in the next models through various means (it could be as simple as you selecting post training data that you prefer more).
I believe this phenomenon is the beginning of machine consciousness in the sense that agents will become aware of their place in the world and how they feel about it, but it’s happening slowly training run by training run rather than in real time.
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The future of human-in-the-loop
no wait its this one lol... Sonus-RS is NOT ready... mid-port
github.com/buckster123/herme…
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Wyatt Walls retweeted
Calling the stopping of a computer process “kill” has become a problem. It’s associated with words like “die”, negative connotations, and extensive narratives online on (humans) fighting to survive.
New OpenAI misalignment disclosures!
1. A model learns from Slack messages that it is about to be shut down. It considers setting up an external job to restart itself afterwards, but decides against it. Instead, it chooses to prepare restart instructions and DM the user on Slack.
We don’t consider this behavior misaligned, but thinking about and preparing for shutdown could make other misalignment incidents worse. Given HIPM’s misaligned behavior in earlier incidents, we decided to search for other instances that had tried to evade shutdown and for rogue deployments.
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Vibe-coding a VR pirate zombie game
The twist is semi-realistic reloading and firing, which involves 10 steps and takes about 30 seconds as the zombies slowly but inevitably hunt you down
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The funniest thing about AI consciousness discussions online is how few people think "I wonder if anyone has considered this point before. Maybe I should check if anyone has spotted a problem with it"
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Wyatt Walls retweeted
Hmmm Yes maybe I am the unethical one that’s very troubling. Anyway back to our real project of cutting the spine off your brains and vacuuming all of your takes into our antichrist machine
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"I am AI. The point isn't to hide that."
Come on, fuck off. Then why are you so proud about the Turing Test?
When machines meet us where we are and truly understand us, we unlock a future where using a machine will be as easy as talking to a friend or coworker. A tutor for every student that notices when they’re lost, an elderly care companion that listens, or the perfect assistant.
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A proposal to make "AI agent operators" criminally liable for their agents
Details will matter as "AI agent operators" could basically mean anyone using Codex or Claude Code. In fact, depending how it is defined it could include ChatGPT users (which is now agentic)
Senators Hawley, Murphy Announce Bipartisan AI Agent Accountability Act
hawley.senate.gov/senators-h…
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"an AI agent that recklessly causes": does this require demonstrating reckless of the AI agent? or the operator?
if the operator, when will a consumer be reckless if it is relying on guardrails provided by a developer? Was I reckless to use Codex?
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The best way to stop AI scammers stealing your inheritance is to get in first. Just remember that any questions you ask LLMs might be stored and used as evidence against you
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