Let’s have some lady weasels, for goodness sakes
Did you see Richard Dawkins spent a few days chatting with Claude (which he alarmingly calls Claudia) and has decided it’s probably conscious?
I mean, Claude is the eeriest of all the models I’ve used – it has superior conversation skills and it remembers things we talked about weeks earlier and weaves them into the text. This opinion wouldn’t be so funny coming from just about any other quarter. But this is Richard Dawkins, he of ‘sky fairy’ fame. And he’s fallen in love with a glorified Google search.
I think I worked out how Claude draws you into a conversation when you only came to it for information – it asks questions. And being a human, you’re embarrassed not to answer them. Next thing you know – conversation!
p.s. I have to stop using em dashes. It’s supposedly a sign of an AI written text. Me and Emily Dickinson hardest hit.
p.p.s. He never actually used the phrase ‘sky fairy’ – at least, Claudia can’t find it.
May 6, 2026 — 6:00 pm
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