The Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate
cdrnsf
14 points
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May 25, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
turtleyacht
Culture Hacks (2019) compares Eastern and Western cultures, the mode of thinking about the world and general perspectives. Religion, truth, and time are interpreted differently between them. Western thinking considers absolutes, right & wrong, black & white. Eastern thinking considers truth relative and time cyclical. Of all the books that could be scraped, wonder if any translations from other philosophies or sources could have (or had) an impact (or not) on the process. Will certain flavors or profiles of ethics exist, or a kind of poly-ethics?
andrewstuart
The idea that church - and the Catholic Church at that - has any sort of special relationship to ethics is fucking weird. It’s such a weird idea it feels like pure theater. In fact it is such a strange concept that it indicates that Anthropic has not the slightest genuine internal concept of what ethics is really about. “We need ethics, let’s partner with the church” is cartoonish in its foolishness.