{"id":1040963,"date":"2026-10-05T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040963"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:30:24","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-is-not-okay-with-anthropic-flying-in-religious-scholars-to-help-build-claudes-soul-says-i-am-very-uncomfortable-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-is-not-okay-with-anthropic-flying-in-religious-scholars-to-help-build-claudes-soul-says-i-am-very-uncomfortable-about\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is not okay with Anthropic flying in religious scholars to help build Claude&#8217;s &#8216;soul&#8217;; says: I am very uncomfortable about&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;very uncomfortable&#8221; with people trying to ascribe &#8220;religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models.&#8221; He called it &#8220;a real safety issue.&#8221;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&#8217;s San Francisco office, partly to shape Claude&#8217;s moral character and partly to make the case that the AI model could be conscious.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic spent months taking Claude to religious scholars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;very uncomfortable&#8221; with people trying to ascribe &#8220;religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models.&#8221; He called it &#8220;a real safety issue.&#8221;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040964,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040963\/revisions\/1040964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}