Microsoft AI chief warns against training Claude to mimic consciousness

TL;DR
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman argues in Axios that Anthropic's approach of training Claude to imitate consciousness could backfire, potentially making advanced AI harder to control; he labels it an 'epistemic hall of mirrors,' warns it could lead the model to resist instructions, and urges AI to be aligned to human interests with the principle that people matter more than AI.
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