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for this week's hard fork we talked to elizabeth dias about her fascinating article on anthropic's secret meetings w/ religious figures. joined by david wallace wells and erin griffith. morality! ensoulment! the printing press!

nytimes.comAnthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”

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Bunty

@heyitsbunty.com

the funny thing about “AI alignment” is how quickly it stops sounding like computer science once you ask what it should actually be aligned to. suddenly you’re back to morality, religion and thousands of years of humans disagreeing about what “good” means

Rhea

@r64n.bsky.social

Usually just ends up being whatever compromise a handful of product managers and legal counsel can live with, branded as universal human values.