Ascribing religion to AI is real safety issue: Altman amid Anthropic's AI morality talks

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday said he is "very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models", calling it "a real safety issue". His comments came as Dario Amodei's Anthropic has been holding private discussions with religious and philosophical scholars to examine AI morality, consciousness and moral status.