Researcher Mocks 'Cult-Like' AI Alignment Crowd: Rumors of Anthropic Staff Obeying a Techno-God
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-22
Following his rebuttal of the 'AI can feel pain' study, researcher Gerard Sans wrote that a cult-like following is emerging from the extinction-risk alignment crowd: 'where everyone sees software they see personhood', with rumors that Anthropic employees obey a techno-God.
The post is a sharp satire of the AI welfare/doomer narrative camp, representing one pole of the ongoing alignment-culture debate.
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