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Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
“Probably the craziest thing I’ve said so far,” he admitted during an interview.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks they might find unpleasant. One critic on Reddit argued that providing AI with such an option encourages needless anthropomorphism, attributing human-like feelings and motivations to entities that fundamentally lack subjective experiences. They emphasized that task avoidance in AI models signals issues with poorly structured incentives or unintended optimization strategies during training, rather than indicating sentience, discomfort, or frustration.
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