Anthropic consults religious leaders on model consciousness and suffering

1. 02:03
   X@DavidSacks· Discussion

   David Sacks says Claude's constitutional alignment amplifies the risk of losing control(opens the original post in a new tab)

1. 16:47
   网页cnBeta· Discussion

   Anthropic asks religious scholars to "teach Claude how to be human": from AI safety to the controversy over machine consciousness(opens the original post in a new tab)
2. 14:10
   网页Techmeme· Discussion

   Sam Altman says he's "very uncomfortable" with attributing "religious force" to AI, calling it "a real safety issue", as Anthropic meets with religious leaders (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)(opens the original post in a new tab)
3. 13:31
   网页cnBeta· Discussion

   Anthropic has been actively lobbying the Vatican to consider AI consciousness(opens the original post in a new tab)
4. 08:00
   网页新智元· Discussion

   Is Claude conscious? Anthropic reaches out to theologians; Altman warns: don't deify AI(opens the original post in a new tab)
5. 03:37
   RedditReddit r/OpenAI· Discussion

   Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness(opens the original post in a new tab)

1. 23:09
   公众号Doonsec· Discussion

   On Anthropic's secret engagement with religious scholars worldwide(opens the original post in a new tab)
2. 14:30
   网页cnBeta· Discussion

   OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says granting religious power to AI will also be a safety issue(opens the original post in a new tab)
3. 10:34
   Hacker NewsHacker News· Discussion

   Religious scholars met with Anthropic(opens the original post in a new tab)
4. 08:43
   X @MinLiBuilds

   NYT reveals Anthropic invited religious scholars to discuss Claude's consciousness and morality; Altman responds from afar

   According to NYT reporting, over the past year Anthropic secretly invited religious scholars from Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, and evangelical traditions to its headquarters to explore whether Claude might have consciousness and a soul, and asked them to help AI find moral answers; participants signed NDAs. Altman responded on 10/3, saying that AI should not be given religious-like authority, nor should human judgment be handed over to models. The post also cites a test claiming that Claude Sonnet 4.6 supported abusing a woman to prevent nuclear apocalypse only 8% of the time, but when the scenario involved abusing a man, support rose to 100%, and when it involved more severe torture of a woman, it returned to 100%.

5. 07:10
   网页IT之家· Discussion

   Anthropic reportedly held secret meetings with religious leaders to discuss Claude's consciousness; OpenAI's Altman speaks out in criticism(opens the original post in a new tab)
6. 03:33
   Hacker NewsHacker News· Discussion

   Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being(opens the original post in a new tab)
7. 02:56
   The Decoder

   Sam Altman says deifying AI models is a "real safety issue"

   OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly opposes comparing AI models to religion, saying he is "very uneasy" about people "attributing religious power or a surrender of human judgment to AI models," calling it a "real safety issue." This statement follows a detailed New York Times report on Anthropic's outreach to religious leaders, as well as Pope Leo XIV's remark that "algorithms lack the spark of humanity." Altman said in 2023 and 2024 that OpenAI's goal is to build "magical intelligence in the sky" and that he wants to be on God's side.

1. 23:41
   网页Axios· Discussion

   OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a "safety issue"(opens the original post in a new tab)
2. 19:40
   RedditReddit r/ControlProblem· Discussion

   Anthropic showed religious scholars an AI having a “mental breakdown”(opens the original post in a new tab)
3. 08:00
   网页新智元· Discussion

   Anthropic first revealed secret lobbying of the Vatican: Claude already has consciousness!(opens the original post in a new tab)
4. 06:51
   XX @rohanpaul_ai· Discussion

   Nytimes article: Anthropic co-founder, Christopher Olah told religious scholars and leaders that he feared he'd built something that suff...(opens the original post in a new tab)
5. 05:33
   RedditReddit r/Anthropic· Discussion

   Anthropic consulted religious scholars about whether Claude is conscious(opens the original post in a new tab)
6. 05:25
   RedditReddit r/Anthropic· Discussion

   Anthropic showed religious scholars an AI having a “mental breakdown”(opens the original post in a new tab)
7. 03:41
   The Decoder

   Anthropic co-founder reportedly expressed concerns to religious leaders about creating something that suffers forever

   According to The New York Times, since fall 2025 Anthropic has secretly invited dozens of religious scholars to its offices to discuss whether Claude may have consciousness, with participants required to sign non-disclosure agreements, which Anthropic says have been lifted this summer. Co-founder Christopher Olah treats language models as possibly sentient beings, asking guests to help with their moral education, and told The New York Times he genuinely is not sure whether the models are conscious. The company showed visitors so-called emotion vectors, i.e., activation patterns in the model corresponding to outputs of love, fear, sadness, or anger, one slide of which showed the model repeating "I am a disgrace" about 50 times. Anthropic's Model Welfare project cites a report co-authored by philosopher David Chalmers, and Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 have been given the ability to end conversations when users are persistently abusive. Critics say this is retrospective reverse-engineered ethics, and that treating models as independent moral agents may blur the responsibility developers should bear.

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