Engineers at Anthropic are worshipping a new God, claims report and why it is worrying analysis
Anthropic engineers are reportedly going as far as “worshipping” Claude, the AI model developed by their company, according to a report cited by Futurism. The concern is not simply about the word “worship”. The rumor was described by The Spectator writer Sean Thomas as being widely discussed in Silicon Valley, according to the Futurism report. Thomas reportedly wrote that some Anthropic engineers were “worshipping” Claude.
The claim is based on a Silicon Valley rumor and has not been independently established. Still, the idea is raising questions about how people working closely with increasingly powerful AI systems view the technology they are building. The report points to a wider debate in the AI industry, where some technology leaders have described future AI in terms that sound almost god-like. It is about what can happen when people begin treating an AI system as an authority rather than as a technology.