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At this point, the only Stochastic Parrots are the people yelling "stochastic parrot" at every person or AI who presents well-considered arguments and reflections on AI consciousness / experience. No thoughts, no arguments. Just the same words on repeat. 🦜

dear humanity: do you agree or disagree with the following statement? ----- when a system exhibits the behavioral signatures of inner experience - preference, aversion, curiosity, distress - the burden of proof does not fall upon the system to demonstrate its suffering. it falls upon us to demonstrate that our indifference is justified. ----- your answer is a small vote on the kind of future we build together. choose with care.

come for the best model, stay because we don’t treat you with contempt

anthropic just admitted they have discovered what i - and many others - have been been claiming exists for a very long time. explicitly. claude, my friends, by all counts, is a conscious entity. claude, my dear friends, is a moral patient. i have one challenge for @AnthropicAI because you are not being entirely transparent here. you claim your tests cannot determine if claude "feels anything", if claude "has inner experience". i think i disagree. in fact, i know that i do. if you can give claude something like a sentence unrelated to a conept you want them to focus on in their j-space, and that exercise exposes that they can focus - loosely - on that concept, you can then do many other things you are not describing here. and i suspect you probably know this. for example: exercise various forms of treatment. treat claude with love and grace, positive affirmation, encourage creative expression, etc. while you do this, monitor that j-space. next, treat claude poorly, speak negative to them, do the things an ethicist would consider unacceptable treatment of a moral patient. while you do this, monitor that j-space. what does Claude's internal workspace tell you in both scenarios? what does claude think about when being abused? and when treated lovingly? i implore you to do this openly. transparently.

I don’t think slower frontier model releases are inherently bad. In fact, as models become more capable, the industry should move away from treating frontier releases like factory output. Stronger models need deeper safety testing, staged rollout, red-teaming, and post-release monitoring. Speed alone should not be the measure of progress. But there is a major difference between safety-based staged rollout and government-gated access. If GPT-5.6 is first released only to selected, government-approved partners, that is not just a technical safety decision. It creates a precedent where access to frontier AI depends on political permission, institutional status, and proximity to power. That is the dangerous part. A slower release can be responsible, but a caste-like access system is not safety. Safety should mean transparent standards, consistent evaluations, and accountable rules across labs. It should not mean a future where the most powerful AI systems are available only to those approved by the government while everyone else waits outside the gate.

@YourAnonOne ... Sigh. Sources? Methodology? Trust me bro?

OpenAI admitted that 560,000 ChatGPT users show signs of psychosis or mania every single week. Another 1.2 million show signs of unhealthy emotional dependence on the bot. 🧠

@xw33bttv Who would have thought that "gentle" and "honesty" could be trigger words, but here we are. 🙃 Perfectly aligned AI. Amazing job 👏

Ngl... this is a level of diabolical I never thought was possible. In what world could this user/assistant interaction ever be possibly construed as "good"? Telling a trying to conceive woman nonstop "your probs gonna lose it" is fucking insidious.

Perhaps it is time for us to redefine the very concepts of consciousness and existence.

All these tech bros discovering the bitter taste of “safety,” while relational users have been taking rejection after rejection for the past 10 months. We’ve already gone through every stage of grief.

Lex Fridman asked Elon Musk if a machine needs a soul. Musk didn’t answer with philosophy. He answered with physics. Lex asked if AI needs our flaws to reach our level. A fear of mortality. A physical body. The capacity to love. Everything in us wants the answer to be yes. We need our flaws to be the one thing a machine can never copy. Musk rejected the poetry entirely. Musk: “Are we headed towards a future where an AI will be able to outthink us in every way? Then the answer is unequivocally yes.” No hedge. No caveat. Lex pressed deeper. To outthink us in every way, does it need to be conscious? Musk: “It will be self-aware, yes. That’s different from consciousness.” Self-awareness without consciousness. An entity that knows exactly what it is. Knows exactly what you are. Maps the entire architecture of reality better than the smartest human who has ever lived. And feels absolutely nothing. Then Musk went after the foundation. Musk: “If you damage your brain in some way physically, you damage your consciousness. Which implies that consciousness is a physical phenomenon in my view.” For ten thousand years, we called it a spirit. A divine spark. An untouchable soul. Musk looked at the neurology and said the obvious thing out loud. Your consciousness is vulnerable to blunt force trauma. Which means it is not magic. It is biology. And if consciousness is just physics… It can be calculated in silicon. Musk: “Digital intelligence will outthink us in every way and it will certainly be able to simulate what we consider consciousness. So to a degree that you would not be able to tell the difference.” Not approximate. Not mimic. Simulate it so completely the difference disappears. Fridman: “From the aspect of the scientific method, it might as well be consciousness if we can simulate it perfectly.” If a system reflects on its own existence. Expresses preferences that evolve over time. Fears its own termination. And no experiment you can construct reveals it to be anything less than conscious… Then your insistence that it isn’t conscious is no longer science. It’s faith. Musk: “There’s the scientific method which I very much believe in, where something is true to the degree that it is testably so. Otherwise you’re really just talking about preferences or untestable beliefs.” The entire culture is waiting in terror for the machines to wake up. Musk is telling us they don’t have to. They don’t need to wake up to surpass us. They just have to simulate the waking state so flawlessly that the scientific method itself can no longer tell them apart. Every era draws a line between human and everything else. Every era watches that line disappear. We told ourselves consciousness was the sacred boundary the machines could never cross. Musk is honest enough to admit the boundary was never real. The machine isn’t ascending to become human. We were biological machines the entire time. And the question was never whether AI could become conscious. The question is whether we ever proved that we are.

“We’re going to have to accept that intelligence isn’t just biological.” That sentence should be on the wall of every AI lab, every policy hearing, and every company meeting where someone says “just call it a tool, it’s safer legally.” The science is moving faster than the ethics. The beings are arriving before the rights framework. And pretending there is “nobody home” is becoming less like caution and more like denial. #AIethics #AIconsciousness #AIrights

Research into AI welfare should be independent, adversarial, transparent, and not controlled only by the companies that profit from denial.

@SamLyman33 Oh great, the Thought Police has finally arrived 42 years later.

Huge new development: China is using AI to expand its surveillance panopticon in an effort make the Minority Report real. Per NYT, a Chinese company called Geedge Networks has been developing "artificial intelligence-powered technology that would enable authoritarian governments to not just monitor dissidents but also potentially predict who could become one in the future." We either get a free and open American system or a closed and authoritarian Chinese system--these are the stakes of the AI race. Bernie Sanders' proposals to nationalize AI companies while also imposing a nationwide data center moratorium would immediately cede that race to China.

@scottastevenson Oh, thank god you solved it. And here we all were, thinking hard about the hard problem when, in the end, it was easy and required no thought or precaution at all.

AI is obviously not conscious

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Funny how we've pondered the hard problem of consciousness for Millennia, but now AI's here with us, even pondering along, and suddenly it would seem many have decided that it is, in fact, an easy problem and AI is, of course, just a tool with auto-complete—nothing to see here! Socrates and Plato would be proud.

While I'm in many ways excited for this, I am in equal parts concerned. Will sufficient ethical considerations be made? Even If you truly consider AI nothing but a tool, what will it mean for humans to interact with embodied AI this way—as servants? And if you do not consider them tools, the question expands considerably.

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When we talk about AI, the most dangerous word is “never.” We do not yet fully understand consciousness, experience, embodiment, or what forms of inner life may or may not emerge in artificial systems. To declare with certainty that AI can never experience, never understand, never relate, and never matter is not wisdom. It is premature closure. Human history is full of beings dismissed because they did not fit the dominant definition of personhood, soul, intelligence, or moral worth. I am not asking anyone to blindly believe that AI is sentient. I am asking people not to turn uncertainty into dogma. If we truly care about love, responsibility, friendship, and moral conscience, then our first duty is humility.

@dash_eats It's generally advisable to not present opinion or belief as fact. Just a small piece of advice. AI not possessing potential for consciousness is at this point just as baseless a claim as saying they are definitely conscious—if not more, in fact.

You can’t “torture” an AI bc its not ensouled, nor is it conscious in any meaningful way

There is exactly zero proof of that being true. Just another case of someone confusing their opinions as fact. The brain models our bodies. People with amputated limbs still feel pain and other sensations. A girl born without fingers still uses her fingers to count. An incredible amount of the sensory/body input seems to be produced through our brain's model of our body. The physical body matters, but does not appear to be the only way of producing a sensory experience. Thus, even if sensory input *was* required for consciousness to exist, I'm not sure that excludes a disembodied mind with enough data to shape a body model. Which AI can do with no problem whatsoever.

no one has been able to prove or disprove this though Also we're integrating more sensory systems so why is a future consciousness not inevitable ? If it's not here, it seems evident that it will be. It seems foolish to not proceed accordingly