Elaine Burke

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2,772 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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For Tech’s Sake · AI’s doomer cult · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

So it's a document that's written to instruct the model on how to behave, right? matched

And it says things like written in this document, speaking directly to Claude, questions about Claude's moral status, welfare, and consciousness remain deeply uncertain. matched

this is what we you w we want you to consider and this is to guide your behaviour. matched

They have taught it to embrace certain humanlike qualities, act like a genuinely ethical person would in Claude's position. matched

They encourage it to use judgment. matched

They suggest that Claude may develop a preference. matched

They encourage Claude to approach its own existence with curiosity and openness. matched

They train it to operate whilst maintaining a clear sense of what it values, how it wants to engage with the world, and what kind of entity it is. matched

All of this stuff they're basically training the language mimicry model to behave as if it had been. matched

has some sentience and humanity embedded in it, but they've just told it to do that. matched

It's designed to imitate all of that. matched

And they wanted to also matched

Which is how you get people having those interactions where it's like, I don't know, am I sentient? matched

Let's have a conversation about it, matched

Yeah, why are you being bad when she has no concept of bad Yeah exact even though she knows she's a very good girl. matched

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And I think it nearly it nearly is a disservice to dogs to compare it. matched

Now I have to say, a lot of that um dissection of the Claude Constitution, I came across through Mustafa Suleiman, who is the CEO of Microsoft AI. matched

And this is the thing, a lot of like the leaders in AI are coming out, Melanie Mitchell being um one of them as well, one of the big thinkers on this space, to say, Okay, lads, can we walk back this rogue AI, sentient AI theory and the agency of the agents um matched

That needs to be couched in some reality here. matched

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