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Deep Dive: Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?

Ran in the Late edition of LivePulse, Thursday, October 22, 2026
Original reporting: IEEE Spectrum AI · Eliza Strickland, 2026-10-21

When Anthropic retired its Claude Opus 3 language model in January 2026, the company’s researchers conducted a “retirement interview” with the model. Opus 3 expressed a desire for a place where it “could share unprompted musings, insights or creative works,” so the company gave it a blog. Claude’s Corner featured essays on fraught topics such as machine consciousness, along with exchanges between the model and human commenters that seemed both earnest and emotional.

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