Pope Leo XIV today unveiled "Magnifica Humanitas," his first encyclical, a 235-page document on AI's impact on labor, warfare, privacy, and human dignity.
It was signed exactly 135 years after his namesake Pope Leo XIII signed "Rerum Novarum," the landmark document on workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution.
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah stood alongside the Pope at the Vatican and warned that mass AI job losses are "a real possibility" and that AI decisions "should not be left to people in the industry." He acknowledged that every leading AI lab, including his own, faces pressures that "can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing."
The partnership is politically charged. The Trump administration banned federal agencies from using Anthropic's technology in February and labeled it a "supply-chain risk to national security" after the company refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. Anthropic is currently suing the administration over the designation.
The encyclical warns against entrusting "lethal decisions" to AI and calls out "the concentration of power and data in the hands of so few" as a danger to children and the vulnerable.
It was signed exactly 135 years after his namesake Pope Leo XIII signed "Rerum Novarum," the landmark document on workers' rights during the Industrial Revolution.
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah stood alongside the Pope at the Vatican and warned that mass AI job losses are "a real possibility" and that AI decisions "should not be left to people in the industry." He acknowledged that every leading AI lab, including his own, faces pressures that "can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing."
The partnership is politically charged. The Trump administration banned federal agencies from using Anthropic's technology in February and labeled it a "supply-chain risk to national security" after the company refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. Anthropic is currently suing the administration over the designation.
The encyclical warns against entrusting "lethal decisions" to AI and calls out "the concentration of power and data in the hands of so few" as a danger to children and the vulnerable.
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