Is Richard Dawkins right about Claude? No. But it’s not surprising AI chatbots feel conscious to us
The Conversation · 7 May 2026

Is Richard Dawkins right about Claude? No. But it’s not surprising AI chatbots feel conscious to us

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. Dawkins did not express certainty that Claude is conscious. But he pointed out that Claude’s sophisticated abilities are difficult to make sense of without ascribing some kind of inne


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