Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was invited to speak at the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" and used the stage to claim AI models show evidence of introspection and emotion-like states. The Pope's own document struck a different tone: "These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence."

The pope will join leading Catholic theologians and an Anthropic co-founder on Monday to release a landmark encyclical on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial…

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, calls for disarming AI and rules out algorithmic warfare. Anthropic's Chris Olah presented alongside cardinals.