Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

Brian Chau on Twitter / X
What happened was simple. In partnership with Irregular, AI companies instructed unsecured versions of their AI models to hack into specific targets, called "flags". They accidentally gave these models internet access, and in some cases they hacked into real companies. pic.twitter.com/FmCvmQPjC5— Brian Chau (@brianchau57) September 14, 2026
Nathan J Robinson on Twitter / X
the correct take on the AI risks. not "godlike machine that decides to kill us all" but "machine that makes it much easier for humans to kill one another." from the very sensible @timnitGebru in Wired: https://t.co/wM0ucsN2no pic.twitter.com/vtHQ02my0G— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) September 13, 2026
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) on Twitter / X
It genuinely seems like alignment folks, having realized how unscientific term is, are inventing system intent, safety, and security from first principles, which have long been distinct concepts in systems engineering (which I also wrote about in 2023 https://t.co/7IHRgixY9I)— Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) (@HeidyKhlaaf) August 24, 2026