Mustafa Suleyman warns against treating AI models as deserving welfare

Mustafa Suleyman argues that AI systems are not conscious, yet a growing movement favors giving models welfare protections and a duty of care, which he thinks is the wrong approach.

He says this framing could make alignment and containment much harder, and points to Anthropic's Claude constitution, which describes Claude's moral status as a serious question.

He calls for urgent public debate and collective norms on how training documentation is drafted and deployed.