The Engineer Still Defines the Debate // AIDRAN

What changed between 2022 and now is not public opinion — it is institutional positioning. Google treated Lemoine's claim as a violation of communication policy ^[16]; Anthropic has since treated the same underlying question as a staffing priority. The is the story. A field that unanimously dismissed Lemoine now has welfare researchers on payroll, which means the dismissal was not a verdict — it was a delay.

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