Is it bad that Anthropic doesn’t know if Claude is conscious?
It's the kind of headline that might seem either like a hypothetical philosophical concern, or a deeply worrying revelation, depending on how you feel about AI: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently said the company is "no longer sure whether Claude is conscious." On the one hand, whether an AI is or is not "conscious" could be seen as a question for the philosophically inclined, or for psychologists and other…