Tooling2d ago
X discussion: AP reports AI companies are turning to religion to teach chatbots right from wrong, with Anthropic citing talks with 15+ religious and cross-cultural groups
A topic drawing heavy discussion on X: a new Associated Press feature reports that some AI companies are turning to religion as they work out how to teach chatbots right from wrong. On Nov 1 the market-news account unusual_whales relayed the report, noting that Anthropic says it has met with scholars, clergy, philosophers and ethicists from more than 15 religious and cross-cultural groups to help shape how Claude handles moral questions. The post drew about 880 likes, 162K views and 189 replies, and X listed the story among its trending news topics. The Anthropic effort itself is not new: the company described it in an official post on May 19. This is a write-up of the discussion, with opinions presented as opinions.
Release5d ago
Anthropic details Claude self-assessment for misuse detection: 78% recall at 1% false positives for under 2% extra compute
On Oct 29 Anthropic introduced self-assessment on X: after each response, Claude produces a structured preliminary safety assessment of the whole conversation for offline review. Anthropic's Safeguards blog says that on Claude Fable 5, at a 1% false-positive rate, it flags 78% of the conversations a stronger prompted classifier flags and 94% of high-priority ones. Because the conversation is already in the KV cache, it adds about 10 output tokens on average and an estimated under 2% of inference compute. It has run in production since June, but Anthropic says it is not robust against an attacker who targets it directly and is only one layer of defense in depth.
Release6d ago
Anthropic expands AI for Science to 20 foundations, institutions and projects, including NSF, Simons and Sloan, with free Claude credits
Anthropic is extending its AI for Science program, launched in May 2025, from individual researchers to institutions: six science funders (including the US NSF, Simons, Sloan and Schmidt Sciences) will distribute Claude credits to researchers, six institutions (such as STScI, Sanger, the Crick and EMBL) will use credits in-house, and six public-good research projects (such as gnomAD, FlyWire and the Lean math library Tau Ceti) get direct support. Anthropic did not disclose the total value of the credits.
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