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A user made the quip while quoting a post from the @Pontifex account.
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A user says a New York Times piece describes Anthropic quietly bringing in religious thinkers from around the world to help give its AI a moral compass.
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The American Prospect points to new hires and interview comments in reporting that Anthropic is using its AI capabilities against dissenters.
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A post says Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that Anthropic’s model-welfare training could make future Claude systems harder to control. A related post revisits Satya Nadella’s 2024 argument for treating AI as a tool.
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Fox News quotes former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon agreeing with Trump that global-warming doomsday scenarios were “overplayed,” while warning that AI is advancing too quickly to leave time to respond.
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Former FTC chair Lina Khan argues dangerous AI releases can already trigger liability. Others question whether that prevents harm—or puts too much responsibility on the companies making the tools.
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Company posts video of AI system navigating office to follow specific individual from reference image.
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WIRED reports that Gebru accuses AI companies of stoking extinction fears to avoid discussing harms such as autonomous weapons.
