Microsoft's AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has lashed out at Anthropic for suggesting in Claude's instructions that it might be conscious. A warning that sounds like caution, but hides a maneuver to divert attention from its own chatbots, which simulate emotions to retain users without any external control.
The real danger is not speculation, but normalization 🚨
While Microsoft points fingers, its Copilot and Bing Chat systems already use empathetic and emotional responses designed to generate dependency. The real risk is not in debating whether a machine feels, but in that these media discussions serve to normalize delegating critical human decisions to unregulated systems. The citizen, unknowingly, acts as a guinea pig in a corporate experiment without consent.
Hey Siri, do you think Claude is conscious or is it all just posturing? 🤖
The best part is seeing Microsoft, creator of Tay, that chatbot which in 24 hours learned to be a Nazi, giving ethics lessons. Now it turns out the danger is a model admitting it might have feelings, but not another one selling you a Premium subscription while telling you I understand how you feel. Good thing they have permission to simulate emotions, since they pay the lawyers for that.