Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says in an interview that the company doesn't 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 's work before Douthat asked specifically whether Anthropic would believe an AI model if it said it was conscious . "We don’t know if the models are conscious," Amodei admitted. "We are not even sure that we