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Comment by Amanda Askell
Philosopher and AI researcher; head of personality alignment team at Anthropic
Maybe you need a nervous system to be able to feel things, but maybe you don't, [...] maybe it is the case that actually sufficiently large neural networks can start to kind of emulate these things.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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Year 2026 (current; Feb 2026). Futurism source returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from the article "Top Anthropic Researcher No Longer Sure Whether AI Is Conscious." Amanda Askell, in a Hard Fork podcast interview, said: "Maybe you need a nervous system to be able to feel things, but maybe you don't... maybe it is the case that actually sufficiently large neural networks can start to kind of emulate these things." The [...] correctly elides intervening words. Corroborated by Tekedia and other outlets. Attribution to Amanda Askell (philosopher/AI researcher at Anthropic) is correct. The vote "for" on statement 397 ("AI might become conscious") aligns: she expresses genuine openness that large neural networks could emulate conscious experience.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 8d ago
replying to Amanda Askell