Anthropic says Claude’s sense of self and psychological security are key to its safety. Could AI have a mind of its own? Dive into the ethics and interpretability behind this new angle on model welfare. #Claude #AIConsciousness #ModelWelfare

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Should AI Get Legal Rights? Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

"In Silicon Valley .. small but growing field called #ModelWelfare .. to figure out whether AI models are conscious & deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights .. Anthropic also hired its first AI welfare researcher last year." www.wired.com/story/model-... @wired.com

#Anthropic has announced new capabilities for its #Claude #AImodels, allowing them to #end conversations in extreme cases of #harmful or #abusive user #interactions. This is being done to #protect the #AImodel itself, not the human user, as part of a programme to study #modelwelfare. The feature is…