“We must not sleepwalk”: Microsoft’s AI chief takes on Anthropic’s Claude
“Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret.”
That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, “A warning about ‘model welfare’”, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect “it may be conscious and deserving of independent agency.”
“AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer,” he writes. If AI is built this way, he says, “it will have a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity.”
Microsoft is an investor in Anthropic. In June, Suleyman said Microsoft wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic for its models.
“An epistemic hall of mirrors”
Suleyman’s main target is Claude’s constitution, the document Anthropic uses to shape how Claude thinks and behaves. He says it teaches Claude ideas about moral status and uncertain...
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