The Pope Invited Anthropic Co-founder To Rome, Then Said AI Could Enslave Us All… Here’s Why:
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God And The Machine
Pope Leo XIV just released an encyclical (a Pope-y version of an open letter) to the world, cautioning against the dangers of AI. …but AI sent its own ambassador.
Anthropic’s co-founder, Chris Olah, was invited to speak after the Pope and also advocated for those outside the AI field to hold tech accountable.
“We need more of the world—religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments, and indeed all people of good will—to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction.”
“We need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.”
Anthropic Catholicism
Some sources are hailing this as a collaboration between our religious overlords and Claude’s corporate overlords, but the Pope himself wasn’t exactly setting up a brand partnership.
“In the era of artificial intelligence,” he wrote in the missive, “When human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human.”
The Pope then highlighted the exploitative global supply chain surrounding AI, from the mining of materials to make computer chips to the numerous “young people, predominantly women, working under demanding conditions for minimal wages” as data labelers, trainers, and moderators.
Along with human trafficking, this was the enslavement that the Pope was referring to, not the science-fiction brain-replicating kind, so calm down.
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This is also Pope Leo’s first encyclical since taking the top job, entitled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity, but you probably guessed that). Throughout, he reiterated the need to safeguard people in the modern world against growing digitization.
Despite the Pope’s obvious influence, his political power in this field might be minimal. In 2015, Pope Francis’ encyclical urged governments to address the Climate Crisis, but then in 2023, he talked about his disappointment over the inaction that had taken place. Awkward.
We’ll have to wait and see if this Pope will be similarly disappointed, but until then, I’m selling ‘Vatican x Anthropic’ t-shirts if anyone wants one.
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