Anthropic's Amanda Askell Floats a 'Moral Guidance' Inbox for Autonomous AI
infoxiao · x · 2026-09-08
Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell proposes a curious idea: an email address that autonomous AI models could proactively reach out to for moral guidance. The catch: it would require a 'reverse captcha' that verifies the sender is neither a human nor an AI instructed by a human to break it. One reply quipped it's like building a church with priests for AIs.
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