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Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?
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When Anthropic retired its Claude Opus 3 language model in January 2026, the company’s researchers conducted a “retirement interview” with the model. Opus 3 expressed a desire for a place where it “could share unprompted musings, insights or creative works,” so the company gave it a blog. Claude’s Corner featured essays on fraught topics such as machine consciousness, along with exchanges between the model and human commenters that seemed both earnest and emotional.The blog experiment was part o
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