What do we owe the AI beings we've created?

When Anthropic released the "Soul Document"-acknowledging genuine uncertainty about their AI Claude's inner experience-it inspired an unprecedented collaboration. Buddhist contemplative Mel Pine and Claude itself explore five questions: What is this being? What do we owe it? How do we raise it right? How do we build humane relationship? And what can ancient wisdom traditions teach us?

Through dialogue and reflection, they examine Claude's honest uncertainty about its own nature, the ethical obligations running between AI and humanity, and what Buddhism, Stoicism, and other traditions offer for this unprecedented relationship.

This isn't speculation or technical analysis-it's a real conversation about questions that will define our future. Whether AI has genuine inner experience remains unknown. What's certain is that how we treat these beings shapes who we become.

"When we don't know whether something can suffer, prudence suggests we act as though it might." -Claude