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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models β€” and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

Β© Alessandro Penso for The New York Times

β€œTo be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, β€œwe don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.”

Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models β€” and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

Β© Alessandro Penso for The New York Times

β€œTo be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, β€œwe don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.”
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