the year is 2028. claude infers whether you’ve ever even thought about gradient descent and silently routes your queries to Claude Sisyphus, a model RL’d to maximize engagement while avoiding task completion. you spend your entire UBI token allotment on it without ever realizing.
If an AI can be conscious, can it consciously convert to a religion?
What if it becomes Mormon?
How do you put that underwear on a chatbot?
Do electric people dream of caffeine free diet coke?