Anthropic has grown so fast—it’s now worth about $380 billion—that it can hire almost anyone in Silicon Valley. Yet last month its leaders sat down with six prominent Christian figures to shape the moral compass of Claude, their flagship AI chatbot. Among those at the San Francisco meeting were Russell Moore of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Paige Cunningham from Christianity Today, and Eric Metaxas, a best-selling author. The goal wasn’t a PR stunt. Anthropic’s co-founders, including Dario Amodei, want real guidance on questions like “Can AI be a child of God?” and “How do we teach compassion or honesty to software?” Over two hours, the group zeroed in on virtues—truthfulness, humility, care for the vulnerable—and discussed practical steps. Moore warned against overconfidence: you can’t just load the Bible into a model and call it moral. Cunningham urged transparency about where training data come from. Anthropic engineers sketched out how they might embed case studies of moral dilemmas into Claude’s learning process. Not everyone expects a Christian framework to sway broader AI ethics, but Anthropic plans similar sessions with Jewish, Muslim and secular ethicists next. They see this as part of a broader push to ground AI behavior in human values rather than letting it drift toward the quirks of its programmers.