According to a rumor reported by The Spectator’s Sean Thomas, some Anthropic engineers are said to “worship” the company’s AI model Claude, with Thomas writing that if a superintelligence is built, people will first fall in love with it, then worship it, and finally make sacrifices to it. The Information reported that getting hired at Dario Amodei’s Anthropic requires prospective employees to pledge allegiance to AI safety and undergo a psychological profiling test. The article notes tech leaders have long claimed to be building a God-like entity, citing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s 2023 description of a “magic intelligence in the sky,” while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told YouTuber Kane Sutter in 2024 that rivals seem to think they’re creating God. It also mentions Bible Chat, which touts itself as the “number one faith app in the world” with “over 40 million” Christian users, and BBC reporting that some employees work up to 90 hours a week amid “grueling work culture,” “cut-throat” performance reviews and frequent layoffs. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are gunning to go public before the end of the year.