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Anthropic's Claude 'personhood' stance meets Pope Leo XIV pushback

Anthropic's Claude 'personhood' stance meets Pope Leo XIV pushback

Anthropic holds that consciousness or a "personality" may reside in its AI Claude, drawing industry criticism that this is a dangerous idea treating AI as more than a tool. Pope Leo XIV posted on X that algorithms lack a human-only brilliance.

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