AI giant Anthropic , which develops the Claude family of AI models, reportedly invited Hindu monk Swami Sarvapriyananda to its San Francisco headquarters for discussions on “artificial intelligence, ethics and morality.”
Videos of Sarvapriyananda speaking about his visit have gone viral on social media, drawing attention to Anthropic’s reported engagement with religious scholars and philosophers as it explores questions around AI ethics and the future of increasingly advanced AI systems. He was later invited to visit the company’s San Francisco headquarters, the monk can be heard saying in the video. He was then asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), limiting what he could publicly discuss about the meetings.
In one of such clips, Sarvapriyananda said Anthropic initially approached him for an online interview, clarifying that it was “not for a job. An AI system arranged his flight and hotel for the visit, according to the monk. “We will show you some things, but you cannot talk about it to the world, But the world now knows about it,” Sarvapriyananda said while recalling his visit to the Anthropic headquarters. Sarvapriyananda referred to Anthropic’s “shiny kid on the block, Mythos” and “Project Glasswing” while discussing his visit Although he did not reveal details covered by the NDA. Anthropic had for months been “hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.”, according to the New York Times.
