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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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“To be clear,” Christopher Olah told me, “we don’t know if A.I. models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.”
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Pope Leo Praises Europe’s Democracy, Diverging Once Again From Trump

Speaking in France, the pontiff lauded postwar efforts to unify the continent. Experts saw it as a critique of President Trump’s repeated berating of European leaders.

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In Metz, in northeastern France, Pope Leo XIV spoke of a Europe that would “continue to flourish and to inspire the whole world.” President Emmanuel Macron of France looked on.
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Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Tours Secular France

After visiting Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day trip to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.

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Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by France’s President Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival at Orly airport on the outskirts of Paris on Friday.
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‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who was the country’s most visible Roman Catholic clergyman of the 20th century, is one step closer to sainthood after a ceremony in St. Louis.

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Beatification typically requires evidence of a miracle resulting from prayer to the person in question. In Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s case, the parents of a stillborn boy in the diocese of Peoria, Ill., in 2010 prayed to him to intervene.
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