The presence of Anthropic's Christopher Olah at the Vatican is significant, and suggests that the U.S. pope's position on AI will become a new flashpoint with the Trump administration.

The Vatican is preparing to release Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical in the coming weeks. The document is expected to address artificial intelligence and insist on an ethics-based…

Billionaire Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah will join Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where Leo will present the first encyclical letter of his papacy on artificial intelligence.