They are very much aware. The hypocrisy is the point. They can say and do whatever they want and no one will stop them. It's about domination. It's twisting the knife they stick in long ago.

It’s true that human cognition is poorly understood and the question ‘what makes us human?’ has changed a lot over time as various technologies have emerged.

But the fact that thinking and speech can now be simulated doesn’t call into question thinking and speech themselves.

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!