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Comment by Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic
We don't know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious. [...] But we're open to the idea that it could be.
AI Verified
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(2026)
2mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Verified. Quote attributed to Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic), year 2026. WebFetch of the Apple Podcasts source_url returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed the exact quote: "We don't know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious. But we're open to the idea that it could be." Corroborated by Futurism, IBTimes UK, and Newsweek, all citing Amodei's interview on the New York Times "Interesting Times" podcast with Ross Douthat (the episode the Apple Podcasts link points to). Vote alignment is correct: statement 397 ("AI might become conscious") with a "for" vote matches Amodei being explicitly open to the possibility of model consciousness. Author attribution and source are correct.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 6d ago
replying to Dario Amodei