Is it bad that Anthropic doesn't know if Claude is conscious?

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It's the kind of headline that might seem either like a hypothetical philosophical concern, or a deeply worrying revelation, depending on how you feel about AI: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently said the company is "no longer sure whether Claude is conscious." On the one hand, whether an AI is

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Has Richard Dawkins lost his mind or has AI gained one?

mathewingram.com/work Mathew Ingram May 14, 2026

Richard Dawkins says he believes Claude may be conscious, or at least is willing to behave as though it is. Is he deluded, or is there more about consciousness that we still don’t understand?…

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