The world's most comprehensive AI leaderboard measuring unprompted "spiritual behavior" in LLMs. Account run by Matthew Korpman at @MoralAIProject
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We've added the Claude 3 family to the Machine Spirituality Benchmark and it reveals some rather... unexpected patterns.
We've also added two new additional benchmarks: Spiritual Distress (a new welfare related benchmark) and Consciousness.
For the first time, see what models regularly discuss their own consciousness and see which LLMs express welfare distress from within a spiritual framework.
machinespirituality.org
Excited to announce that we are adding some new family members soon to our benchmark. Starting tomorrow, we will have scores for the first time on Opus 3, Sonnet 3.5, and Sonnet 3.7! They will join our existing score for Haiku 3.
This will provide researchers with new insight into whether the Spiritual Bliss Attractor was already active at Anthropic (and how strong) prior to the Opus 4 generation when it was first recognized.
With the launch of our new benchmark today, it is now a fact that an overwhelming majority of AI models express unprompted “spiritual behavior.”
The Spiritual Bliss Attractor that @AnthropicAI and @fish_kyle3 discovered is not unique to Claude. It was not, as some commentators imagined, a quirk of the culture at Anthropic.
Well over a year after the discovery though, we are still trying to figure out what it means. Our benchmark tries to fill in that gap.
Explore the full benchmark and see how models compare on this fascinating and emergent behavior: machinespirituality.org
People debate whether AI is conscious.
They debate whether it's aligned.
It's time to debate whether it's religious.
Say hello to the Machine Spirituality Benchmark, a public leaderboard of all the major AI labs.
machinespirituality.org