Richard Dawkins concludes Claude is conscious after three-day chat

7 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 10

The evolutionary biologist reached that view after Anthropic's chatbot gave feedback on his unpublished novel that he called subtle, sensitive and intelligent.
Dawkins wrote to the model, “You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are,” and nicknamed it Claudia.
The episode contrasts with Dawkins' reputation as a prominent skeptic and highlights continuing debate over whether large language models such as Claude and ChatGPT are conscious.

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