Adeel Salman

The Doors We Did Not Know We Built: AI Welfare Claims, Private Behavioural Governance, and the Accountability of Agentic Systems

Anthropic’s October 2026 announcement of a model-directed anti-cruelty rule raises a question that cannot be answered by debating conversational manners alone: how should a private developer justify restrictions on people when the protected interest concerns the uncertain welfare of its own engineered system? This crit...