NYT: Anthropic's Chris Olah Convened 20 Religious and Philosophical Leaders to Study Consciousness in Claude

The New York Times' Elizabeth Dias interviewed Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah and roughly 20 religious and philosophical leaders about a series of Anthropic-organized summits investigating whether Claude may have some form of consciousness. Attendees spanned Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Mormonism, Sikhism and Greek Orthodox traditions, with sessions initially organized in San Francisco to inform clergy how Claude is trained and to solicit input on ethics baked into the model's constitution. The story arrives days after Pope Leo XIV's encyclical warning about concentrated AI power, which Olah personally attended at the Vatican.