Natasha (Nitasha) Tiku
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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And naturally, the conversation flowed to consciousness.
But then in some cases, it went to something they called a spiritual bliss attractor state.
And it just started having like the cyclone emoji.
And they were like, all is one, peace.
And another version was like namaste with the prayer hands emoji, namaste.
And...
It looks a lot like the conversations I see in lawsuits, you know, like about people believing that they're having a very meaningful conversation with the chatbot.
They were saying, I guess it's what's called like the hard problem of this, which is if you are using tests that are still in development, you know, it's not like anyone has found a way to prove that humans are conscious, but we know that they are.
if you use the tests that people use on humans on chatbots, like you're just, it's just kind of conflating one thing for the other.
It can sound human, but we don't know if it has any kind of internal state.
And they are trying different ways.
You know, they're trying to make it a more rigorous science.
One thing that Anthropic did was like kind of perturb the model, like inject a thought into it.
into its activation and then see if it recognized it.
But yeah, the neuroscientists were just extremely skeptical about the methods and really uncomfortable about how quickly the discussion can go to analogies of
factory farming or slavery and you know they a lot of the proponents of studying this say like you know if they are sentient or conscious in some way or can experience you know suffering in some way then we have this massive moral responsibility to the trillions of chatbots but the neuroscientists and consciousness experts I spoke to were like there is also a great moral peril in going the wrong direction and ascribing personhood and sentience to something that is not and
Taylor, you're nodding vigorously.
Problematic, I guess, for lack of a better word.
I don't know.
Well, I'll just say for context that a lot of the funding is a coming from anthropic, but also from the effective altruist movement.
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