Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah appeared alongside Pope Leo XIV during the Vatican presentation of Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical focused entirely on artificial intelligence and human dignity. The document addresses ethical concerns surrounding AI governance, labor displacement, surveillance, autonomous warfare, and concentration of technological power.
Vatican officials invited Olah because of his work in AI interpretability and safety research at Anthropic, reflecting growing collaboration between religious institutions and AI leaders on long-term governance questions.
Pope Leo XIV described AI as one of humanity’s defining challenges and called for stronger ethical oversight, transparency, and protection of human values as intelligent systems become more deeply integrated into society and global infrastructure.
