Amanda Askell, a philosopher working at Anthropic, interviewed in The New Yorker about their genAI bot Claude: “If it’s genuinely hard for humans to wrap their heads around the idea that this is neither a robot nor a human but actually an entirely new entity, imagine how hard it is for the models themselves to understand it!”

Avery Edison on Twitter 2023: "I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What | saw next has shocking implications"