The encyclical states that the internal representations of current AI systems remain, at present, unknown. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, seated beside the Pope, called mass labor displacement a potential moral imperative of historic proportions.
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A papal encyclical borrows a lab's vocabulary
Claim
Pope Leo XIV issued Magnifica Humanitas, a 42,300-word encyclical on the AI age whose description of AI as cultivated rather than built echoes Anthropic's own framing word for word, with the Church and the lab announcing they would together find the way for humanity.
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