Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amadei says he can’t rule out that its chatbot, Claude, is conscious. A Google engineer is sure he once built a sentient being. Holly Baxter speaks to the experts about whether or not ‘AI welfare’ is a serious pursuit — and what that means for humans O n April 7, Anthropic — the company behind Claude, one of the most widely used chatbots alongside ChatGPT and Gemini — rolled out a new update. On its face, this was routine: large language models are in a state of near-