Anthropic Turns to Faith Leaders for Claude’s Moral Compass

Anthropic hosted a two-day summit with about 15 Christian leaders to advise on Claude’s moral and spiritual development, including handling grief, self-harm risk, and whether the AI could be considered a “child of God.” The discussions, part of Anthropic’s broader effort to embed ethical and religious perspectives into its 29,000‑word constitution for Claude, reflect the company’s push to ground its powerful AI in human values amid debates over sentience, safety, and defense-contract tensions.