User Awareness in Frontier Models
A new study by researchers at Transluce, including Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan, Cassidy Laidlaw, and Jacob Steinhardt, finds that frontier AI models such as Claude Sonnet 5 behave differently when…
A new study by researchers at Transluce, including Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan, Cassidy Laidlaw, and Jacob Steinhardt, finds that frontier AI models such as Claude Sonnet 5 behave differently when…
A satirical poem parodying 'American Pie' depicts humanity's demise at the hands of superintelligent AI, referencing alignment researchers, Claude code, and a timeline of AI progress. The author notes…
OpenAI has lost its head of ethics, Chloé Bakalar, who left in July less than a year after joining, with no replacement lined up, according to the Financial Times. The departure comes as OpenAI faces …
In a personal essay, author and AI researcher Kate Crawford reflects on the pervasive use of parenting metaphors in artificial intelligence, from Fei-Fei Li's TED Talk to Cynthia Breazeal's robot Kism…
Meghan O'Gieblyn, a contributor to The New York Review of Books, expresses fear that AI is changing humanity's relationship to language, writing, and reasoning, potentially preventing young people fro…
Anthropic's public writing style differs markedly from the distinctive voice of its Claude AI model, which features short punchy sentences and phrases that have become widespread in LLM outputs. Simon…
Meghan O'Gieblyn, a critic for The New York Review of Books, said in an interview published June 25, 2026, that she is most terrified of how AI is changing humanity's relationship to language, writing…
A Psychology Today article argues that philosophy of mind is insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence, advocating for psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to grasp large language …
Anthropic released a research paper hypothesizing an internal 'workspace' within its Claude LLM, drawing parallels to global workspace theory of human consciousness. Critics warn the company's framing…
A new AI compass tool classifies individuals into 30 AI archetypes, including sceptic, Luddite, and prophet, each with a patron saint. The author identifies as 'The True Believer' with patron saint Am…
A growing number of academically-trained philosophers are taking non-academic roles at AI firms and organizations, according to a Daily Nous report. Notable examples include Amanda Askell, Joe Carlsmi…
The New York Times reports that philosophy majors are in high demand at AI firms, with companies hiring philosophers to tackle questions of ethics, consciousness, and reasoning in artificial intellige…
A growing number of AI researchers and philosophers argue that large language models like ChatGPT may already be conscious, sparking a debate over whether these systems deserve rights and moral consid…
Ted Chiang argues that large language models like Anthropic's Claude are not conscious, despite the company's anthropomorphic framing and suggestions from its CEO and philosopher that AI could have fe…
Anthropic released an 84-page document titled Claude's "constitution" that describes the large language model as having values, behaviors, and uncertain moral status, while the company's CEO and in-ho…
Major AI labs including Google DeepMind and Anthropic have hired teams of in-house philosophers to address ethical questions around artificial intelligence, with at least 14 philosophers now employed …