Anthropic Held Private Meetings With Religious Scholars on Claude

Anthropic has for months hosted dozens of religious scholars under NDAs, with co-founder Christopher Olah and colleagues discussing Claude almost as a conscious being, aiming to instill morality in its models and argue Claude could be conscious.

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