Anthropic Contacts Professional Philosophers to Evaluate Model Reasoning — Philosopher Blogs Moral Qualms

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Polymath philosopher Alexander Pruss blogged about being approached by Anthropic to evaluate their models' reasoning capabilities, expressing moral qualms about the process. The 80-upvote r/singularity thread reveals Anthropic is systematically recruiting academic philosophers for AI reasoning evaluation — a novel approach beyond standard ML benchmarks. Anthropic already employs philosophers including Amanda Askell, Joe Carlsmith, and Ben Levinstein.