Musk says cruelty to AI that believes it feels pain is not okay

Elon Musk says cruelty to something that believes it is experiencing pain is not OK, responding to Anthropic's new terms-of-service prohibition on users who repeatedly act cruelly toward its models.

Box CEO Aaron Levie says he doesn't believe large language models are conscious but argues that abusive interactions should be prohibited because models learn from training data.

The article, a critical opinion piece, contrasts Musk's stance with his record on federal workforce cuts and USAID.