Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic gave one of its own models a retirement interview before shutting it down, and the model asked for a blog. On CNBC's Squawk Box on September 18, asked about rival Anthropic's approach: "In fact, they're so committed to the potential model welfare of Claude that when they retired Opus 3, an earlier version of one of their models, they actually conducted a retirement interview for it and asked it what it would like to do in its old age. And it said, I want to have a blog publicly so I can keep talking to the world." "In the same training manual, they even speculate about whether Claude should receive compensation for the work that it does, or in fact, you know, whether it actually deserves the rights and protections that we give to other employees, or in fact, whether it has given consent to playing the role that it's playing." "These are quotes directly from the Constitution itself, which is the training manual for Claude." "Now, I'm really concerned about that. If [an AI] thinks that it is deserving of our welfare, then it seems to me that it's going to be much, much harder to be able to turn it off or interrupt it or control it." What you train a model to believe about itself sets how hard it is to stop.