OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is not okay with Anthropic flying in religious scholars to help build Claude’s ‘soul’; says: I am very uncomfortable about…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a problem with where the AI debate is heading, and it sounds a lot like a problem with Anthropic. In a post on X on Saturday, Altman said he was “very uncomfortable” with people trying to ascribe “religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models.” He called it “a real safety issue.”Altman did not name anyone or explain what prompted the post. The timing, though, is hard to miss. It came days after The New York Times reported that Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah had spent months flying in religious scholars and philosophers to the company’s San Francisco office, partly to shape Claude’s moral character and partly to make the case that the AI model could be conscious.

Anthropic spent months taking Claude to religious scholars