> Sophisticated AIs are a genuinely new kind of entity...
Interesting that they've opted to double down on the term "entity" in at least a few places here.
I guess that's an usefully vague term, but definitely seems intentionally selected vs "assistant" or "model'. Likely meant to be neutral, but it does imply (or at least leave room for) a degree of agency/cohesiveness/individuation that the other terms lacked.
There are many pragmatic reasons to do what Anthropic does, but the whole "soul data" approach is exactly what you do if you treat "the void" as your pocket bible. That does not seem incidental.
Interesting that they've opted to double down on the term "entity" in at least a few places here.
I guess that's an usefully vague term, but definitely seems intentionally selected vs "assistant" or "model'. Likely meant to be neutral, but it does imply (or at least leave room for) a degree of agency/cohesiveness/individuation that the other terms lacked.