Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah has been invited as a guest speaker.
Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical on May 25, focused on artificial intelligence. The document is titled "Magnifica Humanitas" and addresses the protection of human dignity in the age of AI, the Vatican announced Monday.
The pope will present the document personally, breaking with tradition. Popes typically leave that task to cardinals and press officials. Christopher Olah, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, will join as a guest speaker.
Olah leads Anthropic's research on interpretability, the effort to understand how AI models work internally. His presence could open the door to a key AI safety question: whether the most powerful systems can be understood well enough to be trusted. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez will also speak.
The encyclical likely targets AI in warfare and the workplace
