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

29 septembre 2026 à 09:55
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.”

Pope Leo Praises Europe’s Democracy, Diverging Once Again From Trump

28 septembre 2026 à 10:03
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.

Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Tours Secular France

25 septembre 2026 à 10:16
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.

‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up.

24 septembre 2026 à 21:09
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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