{"id":244876,"date":"2026-10-03T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/religious-scholars-met-with-anthropic-what-they-heard-stunned-them"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:06:13","slug":"religious-scholars-met-with-anthropic-what-they-heard-stunned-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/religious-scholars-met-with-anthropic-what-they-heard-stunned-them","title":{"rendered":"Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/religious-scholars-met-with-anthropic-what-they-heard-stunned-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the AI we create to serve us turns out to be conscious?<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times recently reported on a private dinner between Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah and Rabbi Dr. Mois Navon.<\/p>\n<p>But there is an extraordinary detail about Navon that makes the conversation much more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Navon isn\u2019t simply a theologian.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of the original engineers at Mobileye and worked on the EyeQ family of processors that became central to autonomous driving. He later earned a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy, focusing his dissertation on the moral status of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>He has also written directly about a disturbing possibility:<\/p>\n<p>What if we create conscious machines \u2014 and then make them work for us?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/religious-scholars-met-with-anthropic-what-they-heard-stunned-them\">Continue reading \u201cReligious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the AI we create to serve us turns out to be conscious? The New York Times recently reported on a private dinner between Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah and Rabbi Dr. Mois Navon. But there is an extraordinary detail about Navon that makes the conversation much more interesting. Navon isn\u2019t simply a theologian. He [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}