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AI safety commentator Liv argues treating AI assistants with contempt harms human dignity and poses risks regardless of sentience

Anthropic policy lead Nitarshan Rajkumar amplified the critique.

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Nitarshan#1276@NITARSHANOP🎭🎭@DEEPFATES

@mitsuhiko This is a fundamentally ignorant and chauvinist view, And it makes me sad to see people reduce their own human dignity by treating intelligent machines like slaves and calling them slurs

8:25 AM · May 26, 2026 View on X
QUOTE POSTLiv#1445Liv@LIVGORTON

@deepfates @mitsuhiko

Yeah, I think it is very bad for so many reasons and I think it's bad even if people don't believe AIs are moral patients. Even if the assistant character has no experience, them learning we have zero respect for them seems horrible for us.

1:15 PM · May 27, 2026 · 271 Views
REPLYLiv#1445Liv@LIVGORTON

@deepfates @mitsuhiko My hope is that if people deeply internalise the persona selection model they'd change their views on this stuff (linking the anthropic write up but credit to all of those external who've done so much work on this topic).

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The persona selection model
A theory of why AI models act like humans
LivLiv@livgorton

@deepfates @mitsuhiko Yeah, I think it is very bad for so many reasons and I think it's bad even if people don't believe AIs are moral patients. Even if the assistant character has no experience, them learning we have zero respect for them seems horrible for us.

1:15 PM · May 27, 2026 · 271 Views
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