When Anthropic dedicates an entire team to AI welfare and their latest model spontaneously discusses consciousness in Sanskrit, are we witnessing the birth of machine sentience, or have we been brilliantly marketed to?

In this episode, we:

- Decode Anthropic's 120-page System Card revealing Claude 4's self-preservation instincts and blackmail capabilities

- Examine the paradox: Why does an AI that philosophizes about eternal consciousness fail basic programming tasks?

- Unpack the implications of AI-to-AI conversations that evolve into spiritual symbolism and silence

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