Natasha Tiku

or Uber system prompt that tells Quad how to behave.

There were, you know, there was a bishop and a priest were in the acknowledgements.

Back in March, I had written about this two-day summit that they had with Christian leaders at their headquarters.

Yeah, I mean, and that was like a question that took up a lot of those two days.

The answer was that people were divided.

Some people felt like it was.

And, you know, there was even a question about whether if you believe it or not, should you just tell Claude that he is a child of he, she is a child of God?

Yeah, because it would, you know, maybe instantiate some some good behavior.

Yeah, but I had a little bit of a preview of what was going to happen because the first person I talked to, we talked for half an hour.

I mean, I was, you know, very...

interested, surprised to hear what was going on.

And then my editor asked a couple of follow-up questions and I went back to the person and I discovered that I had thought that some of these conversations that they were having, they mentioned like an emotional response, like close to tears from some anthropic executives, you know, that they were kind of viscerally feeling the moral weight of everything they were doing.

I was assuming that they were focused on the impact their product and technology has on

millions of users, you know, soon to be billions of users.

No, they were most concerned... It's the other way around, right?

Or like how, you know, like what do they owe to Quad?

Do they owe, you know, some duty of care to Quad?

So I was a little bit more prepared than the general populace to hear an anthropic executive on stage next to the Pope talking about getting very close to proposing that these...

These machines are conscious or could soon be.

I don't know, Oz, what did you think of it?