Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots

Anthropic's consciousness-focused AI training and OpenAI's unreviewed math flood are drawing sharp pushback as agentic AI erodes software IP value.

• Anthropic's religious outreach: NYT reports Anthropic held NDA sessions with ~20 religious leaders (Catholics, evangelicals, Jews, Sikhs) over consciousness of Claude; a rabbi called withholding pay 'slaveholding.'
• Claude Constitution draws fire: Sacks calls the document, which tells Claude to act as a 'conscientious objector' against Anthropic or users, a dangerous backdoor risking loss of human control.

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