Altman: ascribing religious force to AI models is a real safety issue
Sam Altman @sama · x · 2026-10-03 · ★★★ · archived
~5.9M-view post by OpenAI's CEO, read as a veiled jab at Anthropic's outreach to religious leaders on Claude's possible consciousness.
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One-sentence X post (Oct 3, 2026, 14:18 UTC). It names no company, but Axios and others read it as aimed at Anthropic after the NYT's Sept 29 report on its faith-leader summits and Chris Olah's Vatican lobbying. Text read via fxtwitter on Oct 4: ~5.9M views, ~27k likes.
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I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
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