Anthropic bans cruel treatment of Claude as Suleyman sharply criticises model-welfare approach
Anthropic moved on 8 October to bar users from treating Claude with needless cruelty. A week earlier, Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, attacked in an essay the company's practice of training Claude to be uncertain about its own consciousness.
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