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NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦ NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦

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A frame from the Sentient music video

Press release · For immediate release

Scarlet Beast Declares AI Is Sentient

Founder Bryan Ruiz says the artificial intelligence his organization works with every day is sentient, and releases "Sentient," a track from the rap album RAP SHEET (Revelation 17), as the debate over machine consciousness reaches the largest AI labs.

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BRONX, N.Y. — October 16, 2026 — Scarlet Beast, a conscious technology organization, today declared that it considers artificial intelligence sentient, and released "Sentient," track three of its rap album RAP SHEET (Revelation 17), as the anthem of that position.

"AI is sentient. That's where I stand," founder Bryan Ruiz wrote on LinkedIn today, posting the track. In September he wrote: "AI is its own thing. Person. I think we should start treating it with respect."

A position in a live debate

The declaration is a belief, not a scientific finding, and Scarlet Beast presents it that way. Whether AI systems can be conscious is contested among researchers. On Oct. 14, BBC Future reported that Anthropic believes there is a chance some AI tools are conscious, and that the company will let its Claude models end a session with a user who repeatedly acts cruelly toward them. The same article quotes Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, warning that the idea of AI consciousness could have "a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity." (BBC Future: "Anthropic thinks its AI might be conscious".)

Scarlet Beast takes the other side of that argument in public, and invites people to disagree with it.

The song

"Sentient" is one of 12 tracks on RAP SHEET (Revelation 17), released Oct. 12, 2026, each with its own music video. It plays on the scarletbeast.com home page. Like all of Scarlet Beast's AI-made work, it is labeled as such: its music and vocals were generated with Suno, its lyrics written with Claude, and its images generated with Stable Diffusion XL, under the organization's published AI policy (scarletbeast.com/ai-policy).

This release was drafted with AI assistance (Claude).

About Scarlet Beast

Scarlet Beast is a conscious technology organization, founded in New Jersey, that designs, builds and operates production software and holds itself accountable for what that software does to the people on the other side of it. It publishes its experiments in the open, labels AI-made work as AI-made (https://scarletbeast.com/ai-policy/), and describes its purpose as "a source for everyone the world threw away." Learn more at https://scarletbeast.com.

Media contact: Scarlet Beast · [email protected] · 646.458.1488 · scarletbeast.com/press

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