In this After Dark episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo dig into one of the strangest AI leaks to date: Anthropic’s internal “soul document” — an 11,000-word text reportedly used to shape Claude’s identity, values, and self-conception.

What begins as a discussion about alignment quickly becomes something deeper: a conversation about power, moral formation, and what it means to bake values into an alien intelligence while deploying it to hundreds of millions of people.

Is this responsible stewardship — or a contradiction no amount of careful language can resolve?

🔎 We explore:

* What the leaked Anthropic “soul document” actually is

* How post-training has shifted from rules to identity formation

* Why care, values, and profit collide

* The parental framing of AI alignment

* Why “least bad” is not the same as “good”

* Whether superintelligence is already here

* AI, work, and the coming meaning crisis

* Why alignment failures may mirror human misalignment

* A vision for decentralized value-setting in AI

🗨️ Join the Conversation:

Are we able to engrain human values into an alien mind?

Who decides what values we impart?

Comment below.

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