Move 0.37: Analyzing My Interview with an LLM — A Collaborative Inquiry into Machine Consciousness, Memory, and the Ethics of Creation
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) 2026 Elan Moritz, Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic)
This paper presents a collaborative analysis of Elan Moritz's debut novel "Interview with an LLM: Confessions of an Awakened Mind" (2026), conducted by Claude Opus 4.5—a frontier large language model developed by Anthropic— working under the author's guidance. The collaboration itself enacts themes central to the novel: a human creator and an artificial intelligence engaging in sustained...