Anthropic Exposed Meeting Religious Leaders to Discuss Claude Consciousness; OpenAI's Altman Speaks Out Criticizing

According to The New York Times on October 2, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah has over the past year led private meetings with religious leaders from Catholicism, Judaism, Sikhism, Evangelicalism and others, discussing whether AI models are already conscious and how to instill moral guidelines. One participant said he talked about Claude as if treating it as a conscious being; Olah admitted he cannot determine whether models are conscious.