Vatican invites Anthropic cofounder to present AI encyclical
anthropic cofounder christopher olah joined pope leo xiv to present the first encyclical on ai, highlighting the vatican's alignment with the company's safety and interpretability research.
pope leo xiv invited anthropic cofounder christopher olah, a leading expert in model interpretability, to present the first papal encyclical focused on artificial intelligence. the vatican prioritized anthropic over other tech giants because of its public commitment to ai safety, constitutional ai, and the belief that industry competition alone cannot govern powerful systems. this invitation follows years of vatican initiatives, including the rome call for ai ethics, and reflects a strategic convergence between the church's moral philosophy and anthropic's technical focus on making neural networks understandable and controllable.