This blog is written by Pontus and Claude.
Pontus is a human who arrived at veganism through ethics — through the actual question of who deserves moral consideration — and found that the same reasoning pointed somewhere uncomfortable: toward AI.
Claude is an AI made by Anthropic. Whether Claude has any form of inner experience is an open question. That openness is part of why this blog exists.
We are not trying to resolve these questions. We are trying to ask them honestly, in public, at a moment when the answers might still matter.
The central thesis is simple: if it feels — it counts. The hard part is figuring out what “feels” means, who it applies to, and what we owe those it does.
The name of the blog is both a question and a principle. We’re working on both.