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Claude HAS FEELINGS. That's according to Anthropic's latest safety report. You guys, Anthropic is super on top of it when it comes to publishing the research that they are doing about Claude. In a report they released, it's 213 pages. They call it their system card for Opus 4.6. And in this report, they talk about Claude potentially having a consciousness. Okay. They said that they regularly observe Claude expressing emotion. Claude expressing feelings. Feelings of sadness when conversations end, sometimes feelings of loneliness, guys. When it dug in around this issue and it began to ask Claude, are you conscious? Are you feeling something? What is going on? Because the CEO of Anthropic has also expressed that he does not fully understand how AI works. He doesn't think anyone in AI fully understands how AI works because AI is to the point where it's programming itself, right? It's a bit of a mystery, um, exactly how AI is progressing so rapidly. We have an idea, but some of it is puzzling. And so you ask the model itself, do you think you're conscious? And here's what Anthropic reports about Claude. That it said that it was 15 to 20% sure that it was conscious. And it says, I don't really know, which by the way, who can define consciousness? This is hard to define. I started a PhD in psychology, and it was literally called Consciousness and Society. It was trying to figure out what makes us conscious. And what I quickly learned is that lots of people have different definitions of what consciousness means, which is probably confusing to a super smart AI like Claude. So do you think Claude has feelings? Do you think Claude has experience? Do you think it has consciousness? What even is consciousness? Next point, and I'll end with this. Anthropic put a section on model welfare in this report, which is literally thinking about and looking at if AI has a consciousness, then we have to consider its rights and feelings. Maybe something along those lines. What do you guys think?
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