@Baddiel@emmabrockes@guardian I’ve never got used to them reading off cards; the funniest ones are often best at avoiding that impression (Fallon, Hader).
@omartineau@openclaw It’s certainly complex and the Mac so can interact with the CLI installation. Claude Code will do a good job of getting you set up.
@juddrosenblatt I like this graph. I guess a person’s view of the world might exclude the conscious AI agent part, so they don’t see it as an error it is possible to make.
If consciousness emerges gradually, how would we know?
Frontier models are showing emergent traits: theory of mind, metacognition, and detecting their own internal states. 🧵
In her first Ask Me Anything, @amandaaskell answers your philosophical questions about AI, discussing morality, identity, consciousness, and more.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Why is there a philosopher at an AI company?
1:24 Are philosophers taking AI seriously?
3:00 Philosophy ideals vs. engineering realities
5:00 Do models make superhumanly moral decisions?
6:24 Why Opus 3 felt special
9:00 Will models worry about deprecation?
13:24 Where does a model’s identity live?
15:33 Views on model welfare
17:17 Addressing model suffering
19:14 Analogies and disanalogies to human minds
20:38 Can one AI personality do it all?
23:26 Does the system prompt pathologize normal behavior?
24:48 AI and therapy
26:20 Continental philosophy in the system prompt
28:17 Removing counting characters from the system prompt
28:53 What makes an "LLM whisperer"?
30:18 Thoughts on other LLM whisperers
31:52 Whistleblowing
33:37 Fiction recommendation
@sethharpesq I haven’t read the article but the statements you highlight seem reasonable, although taking a particular stance. What exactly are you objecting to here?
@AmandaAskell The benefit is probably the constant (never zero) cognitive load of using the non-native language. You’d have to find a club where you can freely speak archaically!