New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Nearly a month after Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, the CEOs of the world's two most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) companies, voiced support for slowing down the pace of AI development, citing risks associated with the technology, including human extinction, the two rivals appear to be taking different approaches once again: this time on religion.

Earlier this week, social media was flooded with videos of Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Hindu monk, who reportedly claimed that Anthropic invited him to its headquarters in San Francisco. Sarvapriyananda, of the Ramakrishna Order, currently heads the Vedanta Society of New York, according to IIM Calcutta.

The viral videos brought attention to Anthropic's reported interac...