We spent a few months reporting on Dario Amodei, and why he thinks about AI the way he does. What we found was a man — deeply influenced by rationalism, effective altruism and the writings of Ray Kurzweil — who survived a fight with testicular cancer and is now leading a trillion…↗

So let me get this straight. People at anthropic believe that they are birthing a new species, potentially conscious and human-like. They are concerned about the well being of Claude, etc.. The company then goes around talking to relugious leaders about potentially extending mora…↗

This is deeply disturbing: Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing, all while wining & dining them to the max. 1/ tinyurl.com/preview/296b5z…↗