@as400@mastodon.bsd.cafe @nixCraft@mastodon.social Anthropic has been going around trying to get religious groups and philosophers to sign on with hyping their software for quite a while: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anthropic-asks-religious-thinkers-to-help-shape-claude-as-pope-warns-about-ai/ . Why the adherents of the LessWrong apocalyptic AI cult among the company's management imagined that they could succeed at this effort remains unclear to me.