AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies
- Written by Nuhu Osman Attah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Australian National University

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...