Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation

https://media.wired.com/photos/6a15cbcd37553f2c38327fce/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/2278118480

When Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical on artificial intelligence at the Vatican on Monday, he invited Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, to speak. The move signaled an unprecedented alliance between the Catholic church and Silicon Valley. But to understand how this partnership came about, we need to go back to Anthropic's founding.

Why Anthropic?

Anthropic launched in 2021 after a group of OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei, left to form a rival lab. They did so with a clear conviction: Artificial intelligence models were becoming too powerful to be developed exclusively according to the logic of competition and speed.

Since then, Anthropic has built its public image around the concept of AI safety. The company aims to build not just powerful models, but ones that are controllable and guided by ethical principles. This is where the concept of Constitutional AIcomes from: the idea of training...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to wired.com. To see the full text click HERE