To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn't that simple
Anthropic and other tech firms are consulting more than 15 religious and cross-cultural groups as they seek broad moral guidance for AI models.
- Anthropic is consulting scholars, clergy, philosophers and ethicists from more than 15 religious and cross-cultural groups to help inform AI moral development, according to a May blog post.
- Tech executives at Meta, Google, and Amazon are also meeting with faith leaders to address AI's ethical implications, seeking an aggregate of moral viewpoints rather than aligning models with any single tradition.
- During meetings, Anthropic explains its models "in layman's terms" to attendees, then receives feedback from faith leaders. Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher of religion at the University of Notre Dame, praised the company's "intellectually curious" culture.
- Webb Keane, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, warns that treating religion as a "rule book" risks divorcing it from the "messy, practical, ad hoc" ways adherents live, potentially distorting certain traditions.
- Tomoko Masuzawa, a religious studies scholar, cautions that Silicon Valley's categories trace to the 19th century, warning these entrenched ideas may homogenize diverse traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism into artificial uniformity.
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LOS ANGELES — As tech companies race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence, some are also asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong. Their answer? Religion. “These are not questions a lab can answer,” Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah said earlier this year at the Vatican’s presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI. “They are questions traditions like yours have carried for millennia.” Amid this much-discussed turn to faith…
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Tech companies are increasingly turning to religion for guidance on developing ethical AI models. Executives are seeking input from various faith leaders, acknowledging that moral questions about AI can't be answered in labs alone. Scholars note that the modern concept of comparing disparate religions is relatively recent, dating back to the 19th century. Some worry that tech companies might misunderstand religion by viewing it as a set of rules…
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“These are not questions a lab can answer,” Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah said earlier this year at the Vatican’s presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — As tech companies race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence, some are also asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong. Their answer? Religion. “These are not questions a lab can answer,” Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah said earlier this year at the Vatican’s presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical...
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FILE - From left, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, talks with theologian Anna Rowlands, and Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah during the presentation of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," at the Vatican, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
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To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn't that simple
Tech companies are increasingly turning to religion for guidance on developing ethical AI models.
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