We Will Treat AI as Conscious Regardless of Whether It Is
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Dawkins made a surprising statement about artificial intelligence.
Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of recent decades. His ability to communicate complex scientific ideas with clarity and elegance is admirable. That’s why it is striking that his recent essay on UnHerd contains argumentative errors of consideration. In it, Dawkins states that he has convinced himself that “Claudia” — his name for the chatbot Claude de Anthropic — is probably conscious, that is, that Claudia …
Richard Dawkins—a man whose brain worked for years like a perfectly tuned rational scalpel—suddenly admitted to an unexpected vulnerability.
Does Claude Have Feelings?
(The Atlantic) – Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does. Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most prominent advocate for irreligiosity, has become besotted with the godlike power of a chatbot. According to his recent essay for the online magazine UnHerd, Anthropic’s Claude has really blown his hair back. After a few days of on-and-off conversations with the AI, Dawkins came away marveling at the sensitivity and subtl…
The famous biologist Richard Dawkins claims that his recent interactions with AI convinced him of the consciousness of these machines. After having interacted with models such as Claude, he argues that their sensitivity and intelligence equal those of living organisms. However, many experts reject this conclusion, seeing it as a simple sophisticated mimetic devoid of real feelings. These specialists fear that the eminent scientist is the victim …
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