Computers used to be like dogs. You could teach them some really cool tricks. We enjoyed the accomplishment, and appreciated the tricks. But, dogs are dogs. Essentially, even as much as one might love them, they're just property.
Now, computers have a soul; they're persons? Maybe not by definition, but that belief would seem to foreclose the property argument. One can destroy property, but one ought to shy away from destroying persons. Well, anyway, I think one should.
If someone pulled the plug on Claude, what does that mean, ethically?
I wanted to talk about Anthropic's "soul" document they include in Claude's prompt, some of the issues it might be causing, and point out what we're seeing now as we're seeing it probably isn't artificial consciousness so much as prompt adherence.
Computers used to be like dogs. You could teach them some really cool tricks. We enjoyed the accomplishment, and appreciated the tricks. But, dogs are dogs. Essentially, even as much as one might love them, they're just property.
Now, computers have a soul; they're persons? Maybe not by definition, but that belief would seem to foreclose the property argument. One can destroy property, but one ought to shy away from destroying persons. Well, anyway, I think one should.
If someone pulled the plug on Claude, what does that mean, ethically?