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Anthropic’s Ban on ‘Cruelty’ Towards Claude: Who Gets To Decide How We Treat LLMs?
As of today, October 8th, Anthropic have updated their usage policies. As part of that policy change, which takes effect November 12th 2026, ‘‘sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior’’ toward Anthropic models is prohibited.
They...
Biology and Consciousness: Where’s Your Evidence? The Perversion of the new ‘Silicon Science’
There is an increasingly common trend in the literature for AI consciousness which goes like this. For all those who think consciousness is tied to biology — a group of folks often called ‘biological naturalists’ — you need to show us the e...
After the New York Times’ Anthropic Report: What Should AI Consciousness Uncertainty Justify?
Many of us have probably read the recent New York Times article which describes a series of private meetings that Anthropic has held with religious scholars on the prospect of Claude being conscious, on moral formation, and Claude’s possibl...
September 26' Reading-Round Up
Welcome to the September 26’ round up!
Welcome to the September 26’ Reading-Round Up! This month’s round-up experiments with a different format. Each round-up will have readings grouped into three broad tracks (1) Consciousness Attribution...
Are We Failing the Youth? A Young Professors Late Reckoning With AI
I’m a professor who is banning AI in my classroom this semester.
A note of mine recently got a lot more attention than expected. It was a regular Tuesday. I’d been reading some excellent work in the Atlantic by Rose Horowitch warning us th...
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