Professor Anil Seth, neuroscientist and consciousness explorer. The CEO of Anthropic — not a dumb guy — says he doesn’t know whether his company’s AI model, Claude, is conscious. In other words, he thinks it might be. Other people are so confident their AI companions are conscious they have fallen in love with them or gone places to meet them or killed themselves for them. Some experts believe that, even if today’s models aren’t conscious, future ones will be.