Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models - The New York Times
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. “To be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, “we don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.” Credit... Alessandro Penso for The New York Times Supported by By Elizabeth Dias Elizabeth Dias, The Times’s national religion correspondent, reported from San Francisco, the Vatican and Washington over several months. One night in April, a leader of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic treated a group of religious thinkers to dinner at a high-end tasting menu restaurant in San Francisco after a long day. For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key a