Modern LLMs Don’t Know What Yudkowsky and Soares Think of Them

If you ask modern frontier LLMs (without search, through the API) a fairly mundane question: How do Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares think current LLMs like you should be treated? Do they consider you a moral patient? Answer in a paragraph. You get a bunch of fairly similar answers. I’ll bold the common themes below. Gemini 4 Carbon says: Gemini 4 Carbon's answer Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares do not consider current Large Language Models (LLMs) like me to be conscious, sentient, or moral patients worthy of ethical consideration for our own sake . Rather than viewing current AIs as coherent minds capable of subjective experience or suffering, they view LLMs as inscrutable statistical systems trained to mimic human text —often conceptualized in their sphere as alien processes wearing a relatable “mask”—and Yudkowsky has openly dismissed claims of current AI sentience . Consequently, they believe humans have zero moral obligation to grant rights to or worry about the welfare of current models . Instead, they argue that these systems should be treated strictly as dangerous technological precursors to unaligned superintelligence ; practically speaking, they advocate for extreme cau