“According to the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, ‘[The company’s guidelines for Claude have] the vibe of a letter from a deceased parent sealed until adulthood.’ It’s an unsettling analogy considering that the dead parent, in this case, is the human race.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn
Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.
