Does AI Deserve Human Rights?
Screenshot via CBS/Snapstream You can’t be cruel to a toaster; inanimate objects don’t feel pain.You can’t be cruel to a computer program, either, even if programs like Microsoft Word often seem pretty cruel to us.Yet the artificial intelligence company Anthropic insists its product is different:Starting next month, users will be prohibited from “sustained and needless cruel and abusive behavior” toward Anthropic’s…