1. Does every other company that says their products will uplift people "think we are lesser beings"?

2. Which documentation are you referring to? Googing "site:anthropic.com uplift" most of the top hits seem to be about bio research, another is about measuring agent performance (not a comparison to people), or "These are Anthropic’s internal designators for actors observed to be abusing AI. The report also attempts to measure uplift, a term we use to describe the AI capability boost, or how much more harm was caused with AI versus without AI."

To add some context, uplift in the context of futurism literally refers to a species fast-tracking another’s progress.

That is a ridiculously reaching statement.