Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he didn't know whether his Claude AI was conscious, but was strikingly open to the possibility.

“Suppose you have a model that assigns itself a 72 percent chance of being conscious,” Douthat began. “Would you believe it?”

Amodei called it a “really hard” question to answer, but hesitated to give a yes or no answer.

Be nice to the stochastic parrots, folks.