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Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude

"To be clear," Christopher Olah told me, "we don't know if A.I. models are conscious. I don't know. I'm genuinely uncertain.

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