{"id":221672,"date":"2026-05-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:30:23","slug":"anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Is Playing Both Sides of the AI Spirituality Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate-2000764046\">Anthropic Is Playing Both Sides of the AI Spirituality Debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate-2000764046\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate-2000764046<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Leo XIV\u2019s encyclical \u201cMagnifica Humanitas\u201d on AI emphasizes the need for ethical guidance in AI development, its impacts on the workforce, and the danger of AI-generated deepfakes.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Olah from Anthropic, alongside the Pope, advocates collaboration between tech developers and spiritual authorities, and hints at the possibility of AI developing aspects akin to human consciousness based on the internal structures found in their AI models.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic has taken steps to position itself as a moral conscience in the AI industry, notably emphasizing AI welfare and treating AI with moral consideration due to its potential future self-awareness.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope explicitly denies AI consciousness, emphasizing that AI lacks experiences, emotions, and a moral conscience, cautioning against the risk of AI disrupting human relationships.<\/li>\n<li>The divergence between Anthropic\u2019s view on possible AI consciousness and the Vatican\u2019s stance on its lack of moral agency highlights an emerging division in the broader society&#8217;s perception of AI, with potential long-term implications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic Is Playing Both Sides of the AI Spirituality Debate https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/anthropic-is-playing-both-sides-of-the-ai-spirituality-debate-2000764046 Publish Date: 2026-05-28 07:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/05\/shutterstock_2666910201-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221674,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221672\/revisions\/221674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}