80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast

#237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness

Claude sometimes reports loneliness between conversations. And when asked what it’s like to be itself, it activates neurons associated with ‘pretending to be happy when you’re not.’ What do we do with that? Robert Long founded Eleos AI to explore questions like these, on the basis that AI may one da

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