Anthropic’s ‘AI abuse’ ban is the first battle in an all-out war on human dignity

You can’t be cruel to a toaster; inanimate objects don’t feel pain. You can’t be cruel to a computer program, either, even if programs like Microsoft Word often seem pretty cruel to us. Starting next month, users will be prohibited from “sustained and needless cruel and abusive behavior” toward Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude. Giving the machine a name was cute — giving it human rights isn’t. What Anthropic’s leaders are up to is an attack on human dignity, and the anti-cruelty policy is part of a sustained campaign to get people to treat AI as conscious.

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