Is AI conscious? Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, says no, flatly, and on September 16 he published an essay arguing that Anthropic's approach to Claude is dangerous because it isn't as sure. A warning about "model welfare" says Anthropic is "training Claude that it may be conscious", and that this "will have a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity". For developers the argument is not abstract: how a model talks about itself is a trained behaviour, and you ship it every time...