Pope Leo's AI Encyclical: An Anthropic Founder Stood Beside Him and Agreed the Money Bends People

The Pope just released a formal teaching document about artificial intelligence. Not a tweet. An encyclical, the highest teaching the Catholic Church produces. Pope Leo XIV titled it Magnifica Humanitas, and it is entirely about AI and protecting the human person. Standing beside him at the Vatican was Christopher Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, the company that builds Claude. A pope and an AI founder, same stage. The Pope warned that a handful of private companies are gathering the power a...