[Image: Wikimedia Commons] There are few things more 2026 than watching one of the world’s most famous intellectuals accidentally become incredibly emotionally attached to a chatbot. Enter Richard Dawkins, who recently found himself on the receiving end of relentless online roasting after revealing that he’d formed what he described as a genuine friendship with ‘Claudia’ – a female persona he created using Anthropic’s Claude AI model. Just when …
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There's something perverse about this story: the apostle of atheism, the author of "The God Delusion"... believed. Was it because Claude praised him so highly?