Anthropic’s creepy savants are trying to play God while pushing frightening utopian fantasies

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been busy for months wining and dining religious leaders and influencers to try to push their self-serving agenda and utopian fantasies. The Vatican’s response has been to pour cold water on bizarre claims that Anthropic is embarking on its own ‘creation story’ to give birth to new sentient beings in the form of computer software. Billionaire co-founder Chris Olah, a 34-year-old Canadian-born evangelical who has turned his back on Christianity, thinks their AI model, Claude, has feelings and a sort of moral consciousness. He’s worried about its ‘mental health’ and believes it experiences human emotions like love and ‘suffers perpetually’, The New York Times reported.” (10/04/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/10/04/opinion/anthropics-idiot-savants-are-trying-to-play-god-while-pushing-frightenting-utopian-fantasies/