@rohanpaul_ai: So this is the part I did not expect. Anthropic called Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Vedanta monk and flew him to the San Fr…
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Anthropic reportedly flew Vedanta monk Swami Sarvapriyananda to its San Francisco HQ for closed-door, NDA-signed meetings with theologians and mental health experts aimed at shaping Claude's moral reasoning, following an NYT report that the company has quietly consulted religious thinkers worldwide to give its AI a moral compass.
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So this is the part I did not expect.
Anthropic called Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Vedanta monk and flew him to the San Francisco head-office.
Closed door meeting with NDA signed. theologians and mental health people in the same sitting, all of it aimed at training Claude. and one of the founders stayed in the room the whole time.
From ’Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Texas“ YT channel (full video link in comment)
Yes, his speech on the video is also quite interesting and engaging.
😅😅
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