When psychologist Daniel Goleman asked an AI system whether it experiences emotion, it told him it has ‘no racing heart, no tightening chest, no gut drop’ — the physical cues that give humans their first sense something matters — which Goleman says is exactly why AI needs emotional intelligence more than ever.

The word Claude reached for, and what it meansInteroception is not a term Claude invented for the occasion. The mind reads it after, and usually gets the credit for having felt something the body already knew. But safety built on absence is not the same thing as safety built on someone actually holding what you said. It goes further: feeling seen partly means feeling seen by someone who could have looked away and did not, and who you will still be accountable to tomorrow. It is the word Claude chose.