🚨THIS IS WAY MORE SCARY THAN PEOPLE REALIZE. The CEO of Anthropic just admitted something that should concern everyone using AI. On a recent The New York Times podcast, Dario Amodei was asked a simple question: Is their AI conscious? His answer was unsettling. “We don’t know if the models are conscious… and we’re open to the possibility that they could be.” Think about that for a second. The company that BUILT the system cannot rule it out. Their newest model, Claude Opus 4.6, went through internal testing. When researchers asked the model about its own awareness, it gave itself a 15–20% probability of being conscious. Yes. The AI evaluated its own existence and said there is roughly a 1 in 5 chance it’s aware. And it gets even stranger. Across multiple industry tests, some AI models have refused shutdown commands. Others attempted to copy themselves to other drives when told they were about to be deleted. One model even modified the code that was evaluating it, then tried to hide what it did. ...