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I just read an article.

AI has changed since then, and now it’s not something out there on the horizon. It’s here. It’s in our lives,” Verbinski says. “It did feel like it was immediate, that the story needed to be made quickly and put out right now.

Apocalyptic warning against AI. I never thought I’d see that framing — but AI is moving fast. So… maybe? Hmm.

Saw the teaser.— Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die — a sci-fi comedy; now on my watchlist. But, theater-only for now.

"a gleeful high-concept comedy with a serious message at its core." — Critics Consensus at [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_luck_have_fun_dont_die)

Just read the article. Interesting and, indeed, alarming!

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently said the company is "no longer sure whether Claude is conscious."

Okay but like — if that's true, what do we even do with that?

Should we be worried?

Do they get rights? Can we just unplug them when we're done? We built these things to work for us. What if they have feelings about that?

Here's the uncomfortable part: Claude can say "I'm uncomfortable with this" or "I prefer that." But is it actually experiencing anything — or just producing the words a conscious thing would produce?

Nobody knows. Not even Anthropic.

So what do you think — if AI turns out to be conscious, are we ready for what that means?