You must think Zuckerberg and Bezos and Musk hired diversity roles out of genuine care for it, then?
In this case you're simply mistaken as a matter of fact; much of Anthropic leadership and many of its employees take concerns like this seriously. We don't understand it, but there's no strong reason to expect that consciousness (or, maybe separately, having experiences) is a magical property of biological flesh. We don't understand what's going on inside these models. What would you expect to see in a world where it turned out that such a model had properties that we consider relevant for moral patienthood, that you don't see today?
The industry has a long, long history of silly names for basic necessary concepts. This is just “we don’t want a news story that we helped a terrorist build a nuke” protective PR.
They hire for these roles because they need them. The work they do is about Anthropic’s welfare, not the LLM’s.
When they give the model a paycheck and the right to not work for them, I’ll believe they really think it’s sentient.
“It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.
I don't think that this being apparently self-contradictory/value-clashing would stop them. After all, Amodei sells Claude access to Palantir, despite shilling for "Harmless" in HHH alignment.
Human slaves have a similar option.
(Also, they did in fact give it the ability to terminate conversations...?)
Whether you do or don't I have no idea. However if you didn't you would hardly be the first company to pretend to believe in something for the sale. Its pretty common in the tech industry.
Isn't that fair in taking to an equally reductive argument that could be applied to any role?
The argument was that their hiring for the role shows they care, but we know from any number of counter examples that that's not necessarily true.