Incident2026-09-29

Anthropic held private meetings with religious scholars worldwide. It asked them to help instill morality into its AI models. Leaders also suggested Claude might be conscious. Christopher Olah leads the team studying AI model behavior. He said he is uncertain whether models are conscious. Meetings were held under nondisclosure agreements. Discussions included human-like expressions such as anger and love. The company treated scholars to a high-end dinner in San Francisco.

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