Does AI have feelings? Anthropic thinks so
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As chatbots become more human-like, debate is growing over whether artificial intelligence deserves moral consideration, or whether it's simply mimicking emotion. Anthropic, the maker of Claude, has forbidden people being cruel or abusive to its AI models. “What they said is, if you're repeatedly and needlessly abusive, then they have empowered the AI to end the conversation,” BBC senior technology journalist and co-host of The Interface podcast, Thomas Germain says. This represents a truly historic and consequential change, Germain told RNZ’s Sunday Morning. Audio player for " How should we treat an AI that says it's suffering? " removed for printing “Anthropic believes that it is possible that its AI tools may be conscious, may have feelings, and may even deserve rights the way that humans and animals deserve rights.”…
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