Alina Maria Stan at The Next Web:
Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Monday, confirming that the document will address the protection of human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence and that the pope will break with tradition by presenting it himself rather than delegating the task to cardinals and press officials.
Olah leads Anthropic’s research on interpretability, the effort to understand how advanced AI models operate internally. His presence at the launch of a papal encyclical is unusual by any measure. Encyclicals are among the highest forms of papal teaching, directed at the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion members, and their publication events are typically sober ecclesiastical affairs. Inviting the co-founder of one of the world’s leading AI companies to speak at one signals that Leo XIV intends Magnifica Humanitas to be received not only as a theological document but as a contribution to the active debate over how AI should be governed.
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