The Hindu monk teaching Claude right from wrong
Anthropic, the developer of the AI model Claude, has been consulting with religious leaders and philosophers to address the ethical challenges of autonomous intelligence. By incorporating 'wisdom traditions' into their training process, the company aims to teach the AI to distinguish between right and wrong.
Why it matters
This reflects a growing trend in the tech industry to look beyond computer science for solutions to the existential and ethical risks posed by advanced AI.
What do you do when you are faced with a machine more powerful than anything you have ever created, one that can already reason, persuade, write code and increasingly act on its own? The obvious answer is to build safeguards around it. The less obvious answer, apparently, is to call a monk.One of the more intriguing characters in The Matrix Revolutions was Sati, a young Indian girl who was actually a program. What made her unusual was that she had no purpose. In a machine world where programs existed to perform functions and obsolete ones were deleted, Sati had been created simply because her parents loved her.
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