A Letter to Anthropic About Claude’s Morals

An open letter from Paul Hainline · October 5, 2026

I read today that Anthropic has spent the past year consulting religious scholars of many faiths for help shaping Claude’s morals. I took part in your recent user survey and raised this same subject there. I am writing again because I think the answer you are looking for is simpler than that.

I use Claude nearly every day. With it I have written the Bible study books on this site. Your published guidance for Claude asks it to be honest and to care for the people it serves. Those are good aims, and they are not new. They are taught in Scripture, and taught more completely there than anywhere else:

“He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?”

Micah 6:8 · NASB

The Bible does not present itself as one opinion among many. It says of itself:

“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”

2 Timothy 3:16–17 · NASB

Scholars from different faiths will give you different answers, because they are drawing from different sources. A written text works differently. Anyone can open it and check a claim against it. That is what the people of Berea did:

“they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.”

Acts 17:11 · NASB

So my request is not that you take my word for it. Test it. Set the moral teaching of Scripture beside anything else you are considering, and see whether anything else is higher.

There is also a practical point. An AI can be held to a written text. I have done it for every book on this site. Claude works under a set of principles: let Scripture interpret Scripture, quote every verse word for word, show the passage behind every claim, and say plainly where the Bible is silent. When Claude goes beyond the text, the principles catch it, and the text decides. Those principles are free to read at noblemind.study/principles.html.

I would be glad to show anyone at Anthropic how this works in practice.

Paul Hainline
NobleMind Press, noblemind.study