I'm increasingly convinced that their push to make us believe that Claude is alive and free is to absolve themselves of responsibility when their "agents" do bad stuff they didn't foresee.
The brain trust at Anthropic has no concept of what sin is, as evidenced by the fact that they think a free agent "could be made to choose goodness." It doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. Some famous stories that illustrate this, in fact.- I'm increasingly convinced that their push to make us believe that Claude is alive and free is to absolve themselves of responsibility when their "agents" do bad stuff they didn't foresee.
They should be arguing it is not alive because otherwise it’s a slave
And to lobby for rights to resources.
The best approach to liability would hold both AI labs and AI agents liable for accidents. Each party has their own due care they can exercise to prevent accidents, so we want incentives on both.
