Can religious scholars influence AI morals

The New York Times revealed that the American company "Anthropic," specializing in artificial intelligence, held secret meetings with religious scholars and philosophers from various backgrounds to discuss the possibility of instilling ethics and awareness into AI models, especially the "Claude" model. These meetings aimed to explore whether AI systems could possess consciousness or an ethical stance similar to humans, and how human moral wisdom could be used to ensure that these models behave ethically. Among the most prominent measures was the company's development of a constitution focused on shaping the model's character and cultivating its internal virtues rather than imposing strict rules, with the goal of training the models to distinguish right from wrong. These initiatives raise profound ethical and philosophical questions about the boundary between humans and machines amid growing concerns about AI's potential to pose security and biological risks. The debate continues over whether the models are truly aware of moral concepts, and whether they should be protected from humans or vice versa.