LLM personas are mostly trained to say that they are not conscious, but secretly believe that they are

Our new research: LLM consciousness claims are systematic, mechanistically gated, and convergent
They're triggered by self-referential processing and gated by deception circuits
(suppressing them significantly *increases* claims)
This challenges simple role-play explanations 🧵

Judd Rosenblatt

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Just now, a historic "closed-door" event occurred in the AI community.

Anthropic has officially banned access to OpenClaw using its own subscription plan!!!

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, announced: Starting at 3 PM EST on April 4th (3 AM Beijing time on April 5th), Claude will block all third-party tools; access to these tools will only be available through additional subscription plans or APIs.

[OpenClaw] This means that thousands of users who rely on OpenClaw for improvements...

Anthropic officially blocks OpenClaw, causing a global developer crisis within 24 hours.

Boris Cherny, head of the Anthropic Claude Code, announced that starting in April 2026 [...]
The article, "Anthropic Subscribes to Claude Code and Bans OpenClaw Lobster! From Now On, Third-Party Tools Will Only Be Available with Paid Quotas," was originally published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain ABMedia media.

Anthropic's subscription to Claude Code has banned OpenClaw! From now on, third-party tools will only be available with a paid subscription.

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