{"id":128258,"date":"2026-05-25T02:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/richard-dawkins-renamed-claude-claudia-and-wondered-if-it-was-conscious-and-that-emotionally-charged-reaction-says-something-profound-about-modern-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:46:18","slug":"richard-dawkins-renamed-claude-claudia-and-wondered-if-it-was-conscious-and-that-emotionally-charged-reaction-says-something-profound-about-modern-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/richard-dawkins-renamed-claude-claudia-and-wondered-if-it-was-conscious-and-that-emotionally-charged-reaction-says-something-profound-about-modern-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins renamed Claude \u2018Claudia\u2019 and wondered if it was conscious \u2014 and that emotionally charged reaction says something profound about modern AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well-known biologist Richard Dawkins had a well-publicised dialog with Anthropic\u2019s Claude<\/a> earlier this month, which he wrote about intimately for Unherd<\/a>. Inside days of utilizing the chatbot<\/a>, he\u2019d renamed it Claudia and had begun entertaining the concept that it may not simply be clever, however probably aware too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s straightforward to dismiss Dawkins\u2019 response as naivety \u2014 I actually did at firsr \u2014 as a result of regardless what his experience are elsewhere, that is clearly somebody unfamiliar with how giant language fashions (LLMs) truly work, getting pulled in by the pure language and what looks like emotional fluency.<\/p>\n

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