News Summary

• The debate over whether AI models could one day be conscious — and merit legal safeguards — is dividing tech leaders.
• Microsoft’s CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, published a blog post on Tuesday arguing that the study of AI welfare is “both premature, and frankly dangerous” Anthropic, which has been hiring researchers to study AI welfare, recently launched a dedicated research program around the concept.
• Google DeepMind recently posted a job listing for a researcher to study “cutting-edge societal questions around machine cognition, consciousness and multi-agent systems”