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Just a person, wiggling ma toes, globetrotting on occasion. From the UK to the USA via Sweden

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@kaikuspa @kareem_carr This. Wish more people actually understood AI modelling instead of just spouting “LLM’s make too many mistakes”

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@DanielSmidstrup Look up level design at King…

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@SGTWipper1Each Seroquel will do it

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@Avabelly__

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@lscec22 Not showering before bed, getting into those sheets with the whole day

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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.

What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text.

"We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience."

"We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease."

These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours.

And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve.

Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large."

The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

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Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei has been saying this for over a year now. And he keeps saying it. Louder each time.

In May 2025, he told Axios that AI could eliminate 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years and push unemployment to 10-20%. In January 2026, he published a 20,000-word essay calling AI “a general labor substitute for humans” that will cause “unusually painful” disruption.

At Davos, he warned of a “zeroth world country” forming in Silicon Valley, decoupled from the rest of society, running at 50% GDP growth while everyone else faces mass joblessness. In his own words: “We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming.”

And the data is starting to back him up. Tech entry-level hiring dropped 30-50% in 2025. Wall Street banks are cutting ~200,000 roles concentrated at the junior level. S&P 500 companies shed employees in net terms for the first time since 2016. Anthropic’s own labor market research confirmed that 77% of businesses use Claude to automate tasks, not to augment workers.

Now another Anthropic co-founder is echoing the same message:

“There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at a very large scale. Supporting those people will be a moral imperative of historic proportions.”

This is no longer a warning from the sidelines. This is the company building the technology telling you, repeatedly, that the disruption is real, it’s fast, and society is not ready for it.

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@brettachapman @nypost Doesn’t big tobacco own Zyn though?

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@NoahKingJr Peanuts 🤮

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@BellaBaddie__ Yep

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@uaivito I know its not, my rent is almost that much 😔

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@lscec22 A sloth

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@cptdankkk Men like this have lost touch with the real world and are oblivious to it

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@Jackkk This man is not well at all and might as well have himself cryogenically frozen now because true indefinite life isn’t going to find him in his lifetime, and he seems obsessed with that rather than enjoying the sun rise every day. Shame.

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@farmacotips Having to tell why you are there to an assistant and then repeat yourself when the doctor comes in. This seems to be an American specific thing. Same with vets here, what gives?

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@OtraEmpanada Outside of the US nobody texts and calls outside Whatsapp

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@KeruboSk Yes

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@texasrunnerDFW Trying to “push through” periomenopause and menopause without HRT is needless and ages you quicker. Its not a hack. And ignore the woowoo people who say you can manage without by “eating clean”, it’s bs. And this isn’t taught to women pre periomenopause at all, tragic.