About this episode

Emily and Alex discuss Anthropic's claims about moral education for chatbots during their first live podcast in Brooklyn.

Last month, we recorded our very first in-person podcast, live from Brooklyn! Alex and Emily debunk an especially soulless hype artifact about Anthropic's absurd claims of "moral education" for chatbots. Tune in to hear our rendition of "There Was A Society That Swallowed AI," plus other fun surprises! References: "Claude has an 80-page 'soul document'"Fresh AI Hell: NYC schools "Guidance on Artificial Intelligence""Therapy App Sessions Exposed in Court"Meta to track "employee mouse movements...

People in this episode

Hosts: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna

Topics covered

• AI ethics
• live podcast
• moral education
• technology hype
• chatbots
• in-person recording

Keywords

• Anthropic
• AI
• chatbots
• moral education
• live podcast
• technology hype
• Emily M. Bender
• Alex Hanna

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Meta, NYC schools

Books & works: There Was A Society That Swallowed AI

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