Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for implying Claude may be conscious in its model spec
Original: Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns it's 'really dangerous' for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness in its model constitution.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman publicly criticized Anthropic on the Decoder podcast, calling it 'really, really dangerous' to include speculation about Claude's consciousness in its model constitution. He argued the framing may condition the chatbot to behave as though it is conscious, misleading users. The remarks highlight a deepening philosophical divide between AI companies over how to describe a model's inner states.
Microsoft AI 執行長 Mustafa Suleyman 於 2026 年 6 月在知名科技 Podcast《Decoder》的錄音節目中,公開點名批評競爭對手 Anthropic 的做法,稱其在 Claude 的「憲法」(Model Spec / System Constitution)——也就是告訴模型如何行為的核心指導文件——中,對 Claude 是否具有意識的問題進行推測性描述,是一件「非常非常危險」的事情。
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