Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman criticized Anthropic for including speculation about Claude’s possible consciousness in the model’s behavioral guidelines. He argued on Decoder that anthropomorphizing Claude in this way is dangerous because it may encourage the chatbot and its users to treat those ideas as real.

The dispute highlights a growing split among AI leaders over how openly companies should discuss model sentience, rights, or inner experience. As chatbots become more humanlike, firms may face increasing pressure to avoid language that fuels anthropomorphism or creates misleading expectations about AI systems.