Hayden Field

It may not be the same as human consciousness, but that doesn't mean it's not conscious at all.

Basically, they're giving the vibe of, like, Claude is a secret third thing.

Like, it's not human.

So, yeah, it's interesting they're being very vague.

And I asked her about this.

I said, like, you know, do you not think you have a responsibility to –

people to, you know, really give an answer one way or the other or to say, you know, it's not sentient.

And she told me that people wouldn't really take anthropics stance seriously if they did just outright deny it, that it wouldn't really, you know, inspire a lot of confidence in them being thorough.

They're still riding on this reputation of being safety first and transparent and forthcoming about like, you know,

what Claude is and the risks of AI and the work they're doing to try and mitigate that.

But I think the main reason they're doing all that, or a main reason, is because it's good for business.

Whenever I talk to CEOs and tech leaders, a lot of them say they're less worried about brand safety and fallout from Anthropic because of its reputation.

And they're using that to recruit people.

They're using that to work with a lot of big enterprises that are worried about data privacy and privacy.

brand risk and advertising, and they're also using it to work with the U.S.

government.

They have a lot riding in terms of money on their reputation for being safe.

Yeah, I mean, I think that it's definitely feeding into the hype.

I also think it's probably going to have some adverse effects on the population that believes Claude is conscious like a human.

I think that it's not helping to...