Sam Altman Calls Ascribing 'Religious Force' to AI a Safety Issue
Sam Altman has a new grievance with Anthropic, and it isn’t about models, markets, or money. It’s about God. On Saturday, the OpenAI CEO posted on X that he is “very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models,” calling the idea “a real safety issue.” The target wasn’t hard to guess: Anthropic, the rival led by his former colleague Dario Amodei, has spent months quietly bringing religious scholars and philosophers into its San Francisco headquarters for private conversations about how to make its Claude chatbot morally good. ...