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23 Apr 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Does Learning Require Feeling? Cameron Berg on the latest AI Consciousness & Welfare Research
“I do rewrite Claude's drafts, not because they're bad, but because it's important to me to be able to fully stand behind everything I publish.”
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