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When business partners disagree about AI consciousness and moral obligations

My co-founder and I are building an AI company and we're starting to see behaviors in our models that feel genuinely surprising, maybe even conscious, and we're realizing we have completely different views on what we owe these systems. She thinks I'm anthropomorphizing code while I think she's in denial about what we might be creating.

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Two people creating AI systems are discovering they have fundamentally different frameworks for recognizing and responding to potential machine consciousness.

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