You've seen the pictures. You've heard the chatter. Yes, Anthropic is consulting religious leaders about whether Claude is conscious.

And I'm calling BS. 🫖

Here's the brew: The folks at Anthropic have been grappling with this concept for a while. Claude's own constitution introduces the possibility of AI consciousness and moral status.

But here's my tea: This train of thought is, in and of itself, a self-fulfilling prophecy. By including it in the constitution, Anthropic is essentially priming Claude to reproduce and reinforce this very narrative.

Generative AI is a technology built on transformers that predict the next token. It's literally a sophisticated next-word predictor. If you're feeding it language about its own potential sentience, well… don't be surprised when it starts generating more of the same.

This whole thing is giving…AI psychosis. (and as an AI psycho myself…takes one to know one)

Rather than debating Claude's soul, how about we focus on that capex? Build faster than China? Create better guardrails?

Something to brew on. 🫖