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Anthropic’s idiot savants are trying to play God while pushing frightenting utopian fantasies

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The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been busy for months wining and dining religious leaders and influencers to try to push their self-serving agenda and utopian fantasies. 

The Vatican’s response has been to pour cold water on bizarre claims that Anthropic is embarking on its own “creation story” to give birth to new sentient beings in the form of computer software.

Billionaire co-founder Chris Olah, a 34-year-old Canadian-born evangelical who has turned his back on Christianity, thinks their AI model, Claude, has feelings and a sort of moral consciousness. He’s worried about its “mental health” and believes it experiences human emotions like love and “suffers perpetually,” The New York Times reported. 

At one of his off-the-record dinners with religious leaders at a “high-end tasting menu restaurant” in San Francisco in April, Olah and colleagues talked about Claude as if it were a “conscious being,” with “moral status” equivalent to a human, according to Rabbi Mois Navon, a former computer engineer interviewed by the Times.

In that case, the rabbi told the nerds, Anthropic was creating slaves. Boom.

At one point that night, Olah was reportedly excited about incorporating the Catholic idea of having Claude “confess” his sins. 

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The next month, Olah was dismayed when Pope Leo, who has a math degree, released an encyclical letter rejecting the entire concept of machine consciousness. 

Magnifica Humanitas, as the 40,000-word papal treatise is titled, warned of the likelihood that the people who control AI will “impose their own moral vision which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems . . . 

“A more moral AI is not enough........

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