Suleyman attacks Anthropic's stance on AI consciousness

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on September 16 arguing that AI is not conscious and that Anthropic's approach to Claude is dangerous because it leaves open whether the model could be a moral patient. He accused the company of circular reasoning, anthropomorphization and ignoring the likely biological basis of consciousness.

• Suleyman: AIs are "sequence completion engines, internally hollow"
• He targets Claude's constitution, which calls the issue "live enough to warrant caution"
• Anthropic gave retired Opus 3 its own Substack for "musings"
• Microsoft agreed to invest up to $5B in Anthropic; Claude runs in Copilot