Swami Sarvapriyananda has hit back at the New York Times for erasing him from their coverage of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence summit. The monk was among the several religious leaders invited by Anthropic to its headquarters in San Francisco for discussions on AI, ethics and morality.
The Resident Minister of the Vedanta Society of New York stated that while Anthropic had invited several people from different religions to discuss AI and morality, the NYT completely skipped out on mentioning his name. Swami Sarvapriyananda said he skipped the question and said he was going back to bed, as it was 4 am.
READ | The Fourth Humiliation: What Anthropic, Monks And The Cusp Of Consciousness Teach About Tomorrow He also mentioned that he was “surprised” that the top people at Anthropic, including co-founder Christopher Olah and in-house philosopher Amanda Askell, treated Claude and AI bots as real people. READ | NDTV World Summit – “You’ve Got A Long Day At Anthropic”: Monk Swami Sarvapriyananda On “Spooky” Chat With Claude Claude then asked him what Olah and Askell thought about the chatbot.
