AI meets religion
• Anthropic nearly bails on Vatican meeting after Pope disputes AI consciousness
• Anthropic privately lobbies for Pope to consider the idea
• A rabbi tells Anthropic: If the AI agents really are conscious, why are you enslaving them?
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.