This is theater but even so the implicit Christian nationalism from the self-described liberal utilitarian AI startup is rather telling and damning. It fits with their broader support for hawkish foreign policy (all-US staff, neo cold war framings) alongside performative guilt & calls for regulation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/

Can AI be a ‘child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s meeting with Christian leaders.

Anthropic met with Christian leaders including from Catholic and Protestant churches to discuss its chatbot Claude’s moral development.

The Washington Post
Could people who aren’t Christian have anything to say about what it means to be a person???? Maybe even ethical approaches to relational identity and non-human beings that illuminate aspects of “AI” distinct from individualism, legalism, and dualism????? Impossible.
Among OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and the rest it’s highly unclear and shifting to me which one is the greater and lesser evil, a real race to the bottom. Being able to survive war or a curtain falling between say US, Canada, EU, India (much less other places) is an important negative indicator
@geryon Huh. Wonder if @codinghorror has seen that.
@Sempf @geryon 🤬 Misanthropic and that little bitch Claude strike again. News flash: amoral win-by-any-means-necessary cult is bad.