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Nuhu Osman Attah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Australian National University

AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies

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When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual.

Specifically, the developers report that, when two Claude models are set talking to one another, they gravitate towards a “‘spiritual bliss’ attractor state”, producing output such as

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