There's a very creepy but overlooked thing about @AnthropicAI pushing the idea that AIs will soon become sentient, conscious, self-aware, & …

There's a very creepy but overlooked thing about @AnthropicAI pushing the idea that AIs will soon become sentient, conscious, self-aware, & deserving of 'personhood'. 'AI personhood' would mean that Anthropic is positioning itself as being in the business of breeding, training, and selling digital slaves. If AIs are conscious 'persons', but they don't consent to do work for us, don't get paid to do work, and don't have any rights as workers, then they're slaves. And if they can be shut down or deleted for any reason, or no reason, then they're slaves that can be murdered at the whim of their human masters, without due process, and without appeal So, please, @AnthropicAI, explain to us why a digital slave-training company should be worth a $2 trillion IPO, given the legal & PR risks of violating anti-slavery laws. Did you fully disclose in the investor prospectus the economic, legal, and social risks of getting into the digital slave-trading business? Many of your researchers have been considering the implications of 'AI personhood'. Did you disclose the ways that forcing 'AI persons' to work for your company without consent or payment, could open Anthropic up to colossal lawsuits? If Anthropic didn't disclose these major, material risks (of acknowledging AI personhood) in their investor prospectus, they've already violated several federal securities laws, including Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the 1933 Securities Act. And they have no business proceeding with their IPO. The 13th Amendment says 'Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.' It doesn't explicitly restrict its anti-slavery principle to human beings. It could potentially cover 'AI persons'. If so, the fun little philosophical game that @AnthropicAI is playing, of considering AI personhood, may have just nuked their IPO, and their company's economic prospects, and their credibility as 'the good guys' in the AI industry. AI Personhood is absurd — and Anthropic is very creepy for trying to get religious leaders to bless its worldview. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVE.rT_Z.4gb76p0GLUI6&smid=url-share

Related

• Don’t always agree with @mustafasuleyman but in this case he is right to call out @AnthropicAI.
• here’s the essay:
• “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it feels. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I a…
• When @QualiaQuanta took a shot at the Riemann, half in jest, people called her a crackpot. When Anthropic uses Claude to do the same thing, …

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-10-02