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> Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah

I find this type of tie up between big religion and mega corporations to be disturbing. It’s already hard to trust Anthropic. They keep changing the behavior and billing of their products. They impose their morals and politics through their AI. They support regulatory capture through “ethics” oriented policies. They claim to be ethical but then partner with Elon Musk to prop up the SpaceX IPO and to get more compute, even if it’s using climate unfriendly natural gas power.

And now they’re picking and choosing which religious groups to include in their process, and which religions’ ideas to control and limit Anthropic’s products. The direct engagement with the Catholic Church isn’t the first instance of this either. There was recently a meeting with between Anthropic (+ OpenAI) and the Interfaith Alliance to again, discuss how AI policies (https://iafsc.org/our-work/faith-ai-covenant).

Sorry but I want religion-neutral tools that do not impose anyone’s politics or morals on users.