{
    "author": "Vivi Lin",
    "date_published": "2026-09-16T10:00:00.000Z",
    "dek": "Pedro Domingos warns Anthropic has a \"cult-like\" culture where employees worship the Claude AI chatbot and hold funerals for retired models. During the job interview process, prospective employees at the 2,500-person company are asked to pledge their allegiance to public safety above profit, and even psychologically profiled to see if they will uphold that, according to The Information.",
    "direction": "ltr",
    "domain": "nypost.com",
    "excerpt": "\u201cThese people are treating AI as if it\u2019s a human in disguise, with human motives, with human emotions,\u201d said University of Washington professor Pedro Domingos.",
    "lead_image_url": "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/anthropic-claude-cult-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200",
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    "title": "Anthropic\u2019s cult-like staff love Claude\u00a0so much they attended a \u2018funeral\u2019 for retired version of chatbot",
    "total_pages": 1,
    "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/tech/anthropic-is-a-cult-and-claude-is-rapidly-becoming-its-god-they-treat-ai-like-its-human-source/",
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