Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah reportedly threatened to back out of Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical launch
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AI Co-Founder Privately Pressed Vatican to Soften Stance Against Machine Consciousness
(The Daily Caller)—An executive at an artificial intelligence giant reportedly pressed the Catholic Church to change its steadfast position that AI models are not capable of human-like consciousness. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah proposed pulling out of Pope Leo XIV’s May 25 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas after seeing an advance copy that rejected AI consciousness, and then privately urged Vatican advisers […] The post AI Co-Founder Privately …
AI co-founder privately pressed Vatican to soften stance against machine consciousness - The Daily Bo Snerdley
An executive at an artificial intelligence giant reportedly pressed the Catholic Church to change its steadfast position that AI models are not capable of human-like consciousness. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah proposed pulling out of Pope Leo XIV’s May 25 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas after seeing an advance copy that rejected AI consciousness, and then privately urged Vatican advisers to take model consciousness seriously, the New York Time…
Does AI have a soul? Pope Leo and Anthropic clash.
“`html Pope Leo’s Bold Declaration: AI Will NEVER Have a Soul, Sparking Global Fury Pope Leo’s Bold Declaration: AI Will NEVER Have a Soul, Sparking Global Fury It’s not every day you see the Vatican weigh in so definitively on cutting-edge technology, let alone on something as profoundly philosophical as the nature of consciousness. But that’s exactly what’s happened, and the ripples are spreading through boardrooms, research labs, and dinner t…
The warriors of God can already prepare themselves, because it seems that the next Crusade will be between Catholic parishioners and the Terminator-type machines that are detached from the advances of the AI. Can you imagine? It would be a great film whose main protagonist is no more or less than Pope Leo XIV. At the end of May 2026, Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff of American origin, presented his first encyclical, a document in which the highe…
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