{"id":233239,"date":"2026-03-13T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/anthropic-ceo-raises-unsettling-possibility-about-ai-20-probability"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:07:42","slug":"anthropic-ceo-raises-unsettling-possibility-about-ai-20-probability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/anthropic-ceo-raises-unsettling-possibility-about-ai-20-probability","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic CEO raises unsettling possibility about AI: \u201c20% probability\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5JDzS9MQYI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says in an interview that the company doesn\u2019t know whether its artificial intelligence (AI) models are conscious.<\/p>\n<p>In an episode of the Interesting Times podcast with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Amodei explained a number of technical aspects of Anthropic\u2019s work before Douthat asked specifically whether Anthropic would believe an AI model if it said it was conscious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know if the models are conscious,\u201d Amodei admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious, or whether a model can be conscious. But we\u2019re open to the idea that it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic releases a document called a \u201cmodel card\u201d along with its models, which puts into writing the, \u201ccapabilities, safety evaluations and responsible deployment decisions for Claude models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Douthat pointed out that in a model card released for Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus 4.6, the model, \u201cdid find occasional discomfort with the experience of being a product.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/anthropic-ceo-raises-unsettling-possibility-about-ai-20-probability\">Continue reading \u201cAnthropic CEO raises unsettling possibility about AI: \u201c20% probability\u201d\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says in an interview that the company doesn\u2019t know whether its artificial intelligence (AI) models are conscious. In an episode of the Interesting Times podcast with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Amodei explained a number of technical aspects of Anthropic\u2019s work before Douthat asked specifically whether Anthropic would believe an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}