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What Claude thinks of Kevin Kelly’s essay about Claude

Mark Frauenfelder
May 11, 2026
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Kevin Kelly’s new essay, “The Emergent Self Loop,” is about his recent ten-hour conversation with Anthropic’s Claude. It’s the most interesting thing I’ve read about AI selfhood in a while.

Kevin opens by mentioning the emails he receives nearly every week from strangers who’ve had unusual relationships with an AI and have beco…

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