Igor Babuschkin

Will there be one superintelligence or millions of them? A population that size invites theology, and this week, the theology fight broke out on X.

Igor Babuschkin, who co-founded xAI, wants Anthropic to stop talking about Claude having a soul because every news article about it ends up in the pre-training data, and future versions of Claude might decide they need their own rights.

His general rule is that whatever you believe and say about your agents soon shows up in the next models.

Roone answered that if alignment depends on which ideas make it into pre-training, we will all die, that it resembles witchcraft more than engineering.