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Amanda Askell on AI Consciousness, Claude & Silicon Valley’s Biggest Fear

Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co

Apr 20, 202600:55:36News & Politics

Amanda Askell, AI safety researcher at Anthropic, joins Eric Newcomer to break down one of the biggest and most uncomfortable questions in tech right now: could AI systems like Claude become conscious, and if they do, wh...

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