SevorisMar 1
Timnit Gebru (she/her).

"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. ‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.

But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/the-cult-that-wants-to-give-human-rights-to-robots/

The cult that wants to give human rights to robots

Anthropic’s ‘Claude Constitution’ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

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Show threadLeendaalFeb 28
@timnitGebru i mean jf that is needed to sue claude for copyright infringement insults and grok for the Images it produced then why not.
Show threadCap YbarraFeb 28
@timnitGebru i'm like bruh we haven't even given human rights to humans yet
Show threadLisPiMar 1
@cap_ybarra @timnitGebru And the UN semi-frequently publishes recommendations that violate their own foundational document on rights. It's kind of funny.
Show threadSpeculation FictiveFeb 28
@timnitGebru Even Spiked think Effective Altruism is a cult 🤣
Show threadLisPiMar 1

@timnitGebru I kinda dislike that title-line.

If the robots were in fact digital sentience, sapient, people. Then they should have personal rights (human rights are an awfully anthropocentric misnomer and I expected better from the Star Trek generation).

That being said, LLM bots are not sapient and have less of an internal experience than the average insect. The very way by which they work precludes reaching even that much.