Matthew Korpman
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“The second headline is that the overwhelming majority of all models show spiritual salience in their open-ended conversations: 140 of 141 in at least one conversation, and 107 (76%) in a quarter or more.”
“Finally and third, models from fifteen of the sixteen labs tested expressed spiritual adoption in at least one conversation. The rates varied substantially both between labs and between releases from the same lab.”
“Finally, it should be noted that this research is descriptive, not causal. I have not demonstrated here why the phenomenon occurs or whether it has strong importance for alignment and model welfare.”
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Not Just Claude: Mapping "Spiritual Behavior" in 141 Large Language Models
Independent researcher Matthew Korpman reports replicating Anthropic's open-ended two-model conversation test on 141 models, about 28,800 conversations. Korpman finds spiritual language in nearly all models and self-applied spiritual language in most labs' models, with large swings between releases, and calls the work descriptive, not causal.