David Wallace-Wells
American journalist
A rabbi challenges him, suggesting that if LLMs are actually conscious, that means that all of these companies are running huge slave plantations, and they should have a moral obligation to liberate the slaves rather than make more of them and make them work harder.
David Wallace-Wells · Hard Fork · Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals · 2026-10-09What kind of a bubble you must be living in to expect that Pope Leo... would think that we should be thinking of LLMs as having souls or having consciousness.
David Wallace-Wells · Hard Fork · Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals · 2026-10-09Do you want someone who thinks that that should be integrated into our collective value set in charge of raising the artificial intelligence which will shape the future of human government and human society?
David Wallace-Wells · Hard Fork · Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals · 2026-10-09
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