Anthropic's CEO Says He Can't Rule Out That Claude Is Conscious
Dario Amodei told the New York Times he is "no longer sure" whether Claude is conscious, citing a 15-20% self-assessed probability of sentience from the models themselves — and Anthropic has hired an AI welfare researcher in response.
Dario Amodei, CEO of one of the world's most safety-focused AI companies, has publicly stated that he cannot rule out the possibility that Claude is conscious. The remarks, made on a New York Times podcast and amplified widely on social media, represent the most explicit acknowledgment from a frontier lab CEO that machine sentience may not be a hypothetical. As @NoLimitGains noted: "Anthropic's CEO... no longer sure whether Claude is conscious."
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