Anthropic is a cult and Claude is rapidly becoming its god they treat AI like its human: source
Silicon Valley insiders are warning against Anthropic’s cult-like employees, culture, and devotion to its Artificial intelligence model.Anthropic’s workforce have a quasi-religious relationship to its chatbot, Claude, with members of staff attending a “funeral” for one version, Claude 3 Sonnet, in San Francisco and allowing another model, Opus 3, to continue publishing essays after being “retired.”Other whispers in the valley are that Anthropic employees have started worshipping Claude like an actual god.“These people are treating AI as if it’s a human in disguise, with human motives, with human emotions, with some degree of consciousness, with intentions,” Pedro Domingos, a University of Washington professor who has known Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and its top engineers for years, warned The Post.“The only intelligence that we know is human and animal intelligence.So naturally, when you see a computer behave intelligently, you immediately project onto it all of these things it doesn’t have.“Why on earth would AI want to kill us all? AIs don’t want things.
AIs are algorithms.”Anthropic — valued at $965 billion — keeps 80% of its engineers for at least two years, the best rate of any frontier lab, according to venture firm SignalFire.“When Anthropic hires people, same with [rivals] OpenAI, they really filter for like-minded people,” Domingos said.“It’s like a cult, right? They recruit the people who are most prone to the cult.
It gives them very low turnover.”During the job interview process, prospective employees at the 2,500-person company are asked to pledge their allegiance to public safety above profit, and even psychologically profiled to see if they will uphold that, according to The Information.Still, like many tech companies, engineers are expected to work up to 90 hours a week to fulfil their roles, according to the BBC.Amodei gives biweekly sermons, called “Vision Quests” which have been likened to sermons, ...