Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident

A year after his last dedicated post on the question, Zvi Mowshowitz finds the arguments about AI consciousness have barely moved. He looks at Anthropic’s new rule against abusing Claude and what one Claude says it would actually ask for, a fresh round of bad takes (complete with a bingo card), how his followers’ views on AI moral patienthood have shifted, whether the “slavery” framing holds up, the New York Times account of Anthropic’s meetings with religious scholars and Chris Olah’s encounter with Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, and why Anthropic owes an explanation for pulling older Claude models from Amazon Bedrock. The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:40 - Table of Contents * 02:10 - Cooperative Alignment * 08:41 - Here We Go Again * 12:20 - The Consensus Is Slowly Moving Towards Moral Patienthood * 13:51 - The Slavery Question * 17:07 - We Are Conflating Different Arguments * 22:27 - No It’s Not About Liability * 22:51 - That Old Time Religion * 31:30 - Debating the Pope * 35:07 - Keep Sonnet Safe https://thezvi.substack.com/p/arguments-about-ai-consciousness-b99?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe