Dario Amodei · Anthropic · Microsoft · Claude · The Atlantic Technology
Earlier this year, the firm launched an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution,” Claude being the name of the large
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This anthropomorphism is by no means limited to the document.
Key facts
- Earlier this year, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said that “we’re open to the idea” that AI could be conscious
- If tomorrow someone showed me a video of an astronaut in a spaceship orbiting Alpha Centauri, a star that’s 4.3 light-years from Earth, what would the reporter has to see in that video to convince me that it
- If they give an LLM a prompt that reads, “The following is a conversation between Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan,” it will generate a coherent dialogue between the two historical figures
- Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution,” Claude being the name of the large language model that is the company’s flagship product
Summary
Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it excels in is anthropomorphism. Generative AI is harmful enough when they understand it as a conventional technology, but if they confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, they're at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot. If they give an LLM a prompt that reads, “The following is a conversation between Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan,” it will generate a coherent dialogue between the two historical figures. Now let’s replace the prompt to read “The following is a conversation between a helpful AI chatbot and a user.” The LLM will produce a coherent dialogue as it did before; the user character might ask for recipe suggestions or sightseeing recommendations, and the helpful AI-chatbot character will provide responses.