New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- Anthropomorphism is one of humanity's deepest cognitive biases. From our pets to cars, we infer and attribute emotions, intentions and minds to non-human entities. With AI, human-like language and actions can lead us to perceive a degree of inner life, agency or even sentience where none exists. Anthropic's AI constitution plays to this by training Claude to think and act like a human.

Anthropic tells Claude that its "moral status" is "a serious question worth considering" and that "Anthropic genuinely cares about Claude's well-being." All of this is a drastic departure from how we have built and thought about technology to date. It proactively creates Claude not as a technology, but as a potential person.

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