There is something both telling and deeply ironic about a $380 billion Silicon Valley AI company — one that has been labeled “woke” by the President of the United States, locked in a legal battle with the Pentagon, and reportedly embedded in military operations against Iran — quietly inviting fifteen Christian leaders to its San Francisco headquarters to ask them how to make its chatbot behave. That is precisely what Anthropic did in late March, hosting a two-day summit with Catholic and Protestant clergy, academics, and business leaders to discuss the “moral and spiritual development” of its AI chatbot, Claude.The questions on the table were not trivial. According to participants who spoke with the Washington Post, the conversations ranged from how Claude should console grieving users and engage with those at risk of self-harm, to something far more philosophically loaded — whether an artificial intelligence could be considered a “child of God.”Read More: https://basedunderground.com/when-the-algorithm-needs-absolution-anthropic-goes-to-church/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.