Experts question Big Tech's turn to religion to make AI morally good

Tech companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google and Microsoft are consulting faith leaders and philosophers to give AI moral guidance. Anthropic said it met scholars and clergy from more than 15 religious and cross-cultural groups. Experts warn religion is not a set of extractable rules and that the approach distorts traditions not centered on ethics.

• Anthropic met scholars and clergy from more than 15 religious and cross-cultural groups
• Sam Altman suggested ChatGPT should reflect a "weighted average" of humanity's moral views
• Anthropologist Webb Keane: religion is not a rule book, and the approach distorts non-Abrahamic faiths
• Meta, Google and Amazon have met with the Vatican, while Microsoft pursues active religious outreach