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Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’
Anthropic is launching a new program to study 'model welfare.' The lab believes future AI could be more human-like — and thus need special considerations.
Trained on countless examples of text, images, and so on, AI learns patterns and sometime useful ways to extrapolate to solve tasks. (Fish, who’s leading the new model welfare research program, told The New York Times that he thinks there’s a 15% chance Claude or another AI is conscious today.) In a blog post Thursday, Anthropic acknowledged that there’s no scientific consensus on whether current or future AI systems could be conscious or have experiences that warrant ethical consideration.
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