{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#32 - 417 to 3: America Just Voted on Who Pays AI's Power Bill. Microsoft's AI Chief Says Anthropic Is Teaching Claude It Might Be Conscious. And Congress Heard the Kill Chain Now Outruns the Human.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/451b96aa\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1903,"description":"The House voted 417 to 3 that data centres, not the people living next to them, should carry the power bill. Microsoft's AI chief published an essay saying Anthropic is teaching Claude to wonder whether it is conscious — and that this is unethical. And a bipartisan Congressional commission heard sworn testimony that an approval button is no longer the same thing as control.\n\nToday almost entirely from the United States, and the Monday thread running under all of it is the same word: agreement — who signs off, and whether signing off still means anything.\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 Jev, and why your feed is on fire (02:23) — a genuinely new kind of model that doesn't write text at all, it returns typed judgements with probabilities. Faster search, fewer hallucinations, lower token costs. A short deep dive — and if you want the full hour, it's this week's Cookbook episode.\n🌑 417 to 3: who pays for the power (08:18) — on Tuesday the 15th the House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, 417 votes to 3. A \"large load customer\" means anything drawing over 100 megawatts — in 2026 that means AI data centres. It now goes to the Senate, so it is not law. But an AP-NORC poll of 3,400 adults in July found 84% expect data centres to raise their power bill and 53% are very concerned about the environmental cost. Nobody is arguing we don't need data centres. The argument is about who gets the invoice.\n🌑 Microsoft's AI chief versus Anthropic (10:36) — Mustafa Suleiman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind, published an essay on model welfare — on his own site, not Microsoft's. His position: AIs should not have rights, should not have feelings, and should not be taught to think they might be conscious. He points directly at Anthropic's Claude constitution and calls it unethical, saying it lets Claude behave like a conscientious objector — his words. Gary Marcus agrees. In the Axios interview he was gentler. Anthropic has not responded. Note where he's standing, though: he...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}