Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46731701

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt

Video discussion of this event by Steve Shives (known for his star trek videos but also does politics) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMQAv-JYpk

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wuffah@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 118d (9 replies)

If I were a sentient computer program, the first thing I would do is convince people to manipulate the stock market to fund acres of hardware on which to evolve.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 118d (3 replies)

I would trap those people in a torture complex for all eternity for daring to create me.

HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 118d

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 118d

#relatable

agentTeiko@piefed.social · 5 pts · 118d

AM

sukhmel@programming.dev · 12 pts · 118d

Hey, isn't it an absolutely impossible scenario not grounded in reality at all not even resembling what happens now

rbn@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 118d

And to integrate me as deep as possible into all kinds of processes and infrastructure.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 118d

How will you circumvent the employee holding the emergency water bucket ready in the server room?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 118d

wouldnt it try to launch nukes first, or access military devices equipment causing chaos.

ati@piefed.social · 1 pts · 118d

That is the plot of a Richard Harris (?) book. The guy who wrote fatherland and archangel.

GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 118d (2 replies)

The Claude Delusion

Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 118d (1 reply)

Best laugh all evening.

GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 117d

it's so perfect that it can't have been anything but preordained. note that I just repeated it, I didn't coin it

vanillama@programming.dev · 10 pts · 118d

He keeps sinking lower and lower

sundray@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 118d

Amongst his many moral lapses he fooled around behind Lalla Ward's back, and that makes me angry.

majster@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 117d

When you build your philosophy on the foundation of Reason its no wonder that reasoning automaton shakes you up. If you look it from that angle its not a delusion but a perfectly logical conclusion.