{"id":263114,"date":"2026-06-03T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:15:23","slug":"no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/philosophy\/2026\/06\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/687378\/\">No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/philosophy\/2026\/06\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/687378\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/philosophy\/2026\/06\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/687378\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 12:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theatlantic.com\">www.theatlantic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW ArticleParagraph_dropcap__uIVzg\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\" data-flatplan-dropcap=\"true\">Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year the company released an 84-page document titled Claude\u2019s \u201cconstitution,\u201d Claude being the name of the large language model that is the company\u2019s flagship product. The first sentence reads, \u201cClaude\u2019s constitution is a detailed description of Anthropic\u2019s intentions for Claude\u2019s values and behaviors.\u201d It goes on: \u201cThe document is written with Claude as its primary audience\u201d; \u201cwe want Claude to be able to use its judgment once armed with a good understanding of the relevant considerations\u201d; \u201cClaude\u2019s moral status is deeply uncertain\u201d; and \u201cClaude may have some functional version of emotions or feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">This anthropomorphism is by no means limited to the document. In an interview earlier this year, Anthropic\u2019s CEO, Dario Amodei, said \u201cwe\u2019re open to the idea\u201d that AI could be conscious. In a separate interview, Anthropic\u2019s in-house philosopher, Amanda Askell (who is credited as a lead author of Claude\u2019s constitution), said, \u201cI want Claude to be very happy\u2014and this is a thing that I want Claude to know more, because I worry about Claude getting anxious when people are mean to it on the internet and stuff.\u201d It\u2019s enough to make you wonder: Should we seriously consider the possibility that Claude, or any large language model, might be conscious? And if it has feelings, is it capable of receiving moral instruction?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we\u2019re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot. To appreciate the titanic magnitude of this error, we need to begin by understanding how LLMs work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">If we give an LLM a prompt that reads \u201cThe following is a conversation between Julius Caesar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/philosophy\/2026\/06\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/687378\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/philosophy\/2026\/06\/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious\/687378\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-03 12:03:00 Source Domain: www.theatlantic.com Anthropic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/fdONLsUPMiSaP_UQenVaAXAt2nI=\/40x45:1998x1065\/1200x625\/media\/img\/mt\/2026\/06\/2026_06_01_chiang_Consciousness_Trap_final_horizontal\/original.gif","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19,18,17],"class_list":["post-263114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263118,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263114\/revisions\/263118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}