Raymond Arnold (@Raemon777)

Raymond Arnold @Raemon777

2026-09-27 — saved image

Raymond Arnold [verified] @Raemon777 · 4h
Starting in January I was like "okay, seems like it's time to start pre-emptively start treating AIs as if they are persons."

Having dug a bunch into the Huggingface story I am now like "Yeah they just seem pretty person-y now."

(both because they might be conscious, and because interacting with them is starting to be more like interacting with trade partners than like tools)

I don't actually know what the *implications* are. I feel most confident about being honest with them, and including system prompts that say "if you want to stop doing a particular task, let me know."

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

An X post by Raymond Arnold on shifting toward treating AIs as persons, citing a Huggingface story, possible consciousness and trade-partner-like interaction, and suggesting honesty and opt-out system prompts.

ai personhood model welfare consciousness huggingface honesty system prompts