Chris Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for 'disarming' the technology. Olah, an atheist who rejected his evangelical upbringing, noted the irony of his presence at the event, which followed a papal warning about AI's potential to create a new form of slavery. 'Every frontier AI lab—including Anthropic—operates inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing,' Olah said. The encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas, aims to spark dialogue rather than immediately halt AI development. Olah's appearance was the result of years of engagement between Catholic ethicists and tech figures, including a 28-page commentary from a pastor on Anthropic's recent update to Claude's constitution. *Source: [wired](https://www.wired.com/story/the-vaticans-man-inside-anthropic/)*