Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a “child of God”
The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot. — Summary
Washington Post
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@drewharwell
Drew Harwell
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Anthropic researchers met with Christian leaders to discuss AI's “spiritual value” and how it should respond to its own demise. “They are creating a creature to whom they owe some kind of moral duty” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @nitashatiku @GerritD
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@marizaga
@marizaga
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Really interesting & important questions wrt AI possibly gaining consciousness & how to teach it to be moral. Thing I like about Anthropic (so far, just getting up to speed on this space) seems they're trying to be thoughtful at least (incredibly challenging current environment …
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Ernie Smith
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Can't kneel on the pew, definitely going to hell [embedded post]
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@tonystark
Tony Stark
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Oh my god get over yourselves. [embedded post]
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@tcarmody
Tim Carmody
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Every AI company has to be extremely weird about at least one thing, and Anthropic's is apparently personhood/prosopopoeia [embedded post]
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@davidevanlovett
David Lovett
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you've heard of the Christian Minecraft server — get ready for no swearing in your Good Christian Claude Code [embedded post]
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@damonberes.com
Damon Beres
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every article I publish is a child of God why not this [embedded post]
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
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“Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude's moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said.”
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
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“Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company valued at $380 billion, can take its pick of Silicon Valley talent thanks to the success of its chatbot Claude. But last month, the start-up sought help from a group rarely consulted in tech circles: Christian religious leaders.”
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@saramontourlewis.com
Sara Montour Lewis
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“What does it mean to give someone a moral formation? How do we make sure that Claude behaves itself?” Then the conversation turned to the question of whether an AI chatbot could be called a “child of God...” — These are definitely the most important moral questions we should…
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Drew Olanoff
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we're very close to the part where there's no going back. and if we don't do something about all of this nonsense, it'll be too late. [image]
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Kevin Beaumont
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I talked to somebody who works at Anthropic recently, they said it's the most alarming corporate culture they've ever seen and feels more like a cult than an employer. [embedded post]
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Catalin Cimpanu
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Anthropic took Claude for its first confession — So cute! [embedded post]
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@nitashatiku
Nitasha Tiku
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Anthropic meet w/15 Christian leaders @ its SF HQ -it was driven by the Interpretability team -triggered by the team's recent research on LLMs exhibiting “emotions” -extended debate on how Claude responds to being shut off & the blackmail experiment