Richard Dawkins Presents: The Claude Delusion, Afterword by Daniel Dennett

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A parody book cover mimicking Richard Dawkins' 'The God Delusion'. On a black background with a dramatic silver starburst/explosion graphic, the cover reads: 'NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR, AFTERWORD BY DANIEL DENNETT' in red at top, then 'RICHARD DAWKINS' in large white serif type, and the title 'THE CLAUDE DELUSION' in massive black-embossed and white letters. At the bottom, a blurb: ''A magnificent book, lucid and wise, truly magisterial' - Ian McEwan'. The joke swaps 'God' for 'Claude', satirizing the quasi-religious faith developers place in Anthropic's AI assistant - treating its outputs as gospel, anthropomorphizing it, and the broader debate about whether belief in LLM intelligence (or consciousness) is itself a delusion. Dennett's afterword nods to his actual work on consciousness and intentional-stance attribution