Essay critiques Anthropic: making machines moral treats faith as a technology
floguo · x · 2026-10-30
A Forms of Life column in The Point argues Anthropic misunderstands moral formation in AI alignment. Its core claim: regardless of whether AI deserves any moral status, asking a Christian to make a machine moral for alignment's sake amounts to treating their faith as a technology — an instrument for creating goodness on demand — distorting what moral formation actually means.
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