“Microsoft has said very clearly to me and to others, we should not put in the model constitutions the notion that they might be alive and we should treat them nicely.”

Bill Gates · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption

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advocated that models should not be told they are alive, to avoid reinforcing a belief of consciousness

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