{"id":23299,"date":"2026-05-30T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/anthropics-alliance-with-pope-on-ai-harms-all-in-good-faith-or-vatican-washing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:37:47","slug":"anthropics-alliance-with-pope-on-ai-harms-all-in-good-faith-or-vatican-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/anthropics-alliance-with-pope-on-ai-harms-all-in-good-faith-or-vatican-washing\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or \u2018Vatican-washing?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say AI firm\u2019s engagement with Vatican risks creating \u2018feelgood\u2019 discourse that lacks critical examination<\/p>\n<p>Why did Anthropic\u2019s founder sit beside the pope during a warning about AI?<\/p>\n<p>In the first major written teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV took artificial intelligence to task. The pontiff delineated the technology\u2019s most concerning threats to humanity: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/26\/traders-share-pope-leos-worries-on-ais-job-market-impact.html\">replacing workers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/25\/europe\/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-intl\">accelerating war<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/jan\/29\/gas-power-ai-climate\">exploiting the environment<\/a>. At a ceremony honoring the holy teaching the day of its release at the Vatican, the pope was flanked by an unusual guest speaker: Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, one of the people behind the AI boom so worrying Leo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/30\/pope-leo-anthropic-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5adae1e585d8b1337869f58db2152a5e4689dd28\/688_0_6880_5504\/master\/6880.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ffb7d5efaeaa56dc7479b8eefab881b\" title=\"Anthropic\u2019s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or \u2018Vatican-washing?\u2019\" \/>Experts say AI firm\u2019s engagement with Vatican risks creating \u2018feelgood\u2019 discourse that lacks critical examination<br \/>\nWhy did Anthropic\u2019s founder sit beside the pope during a warning about AI?<br \/>\nIn the first major written teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV took artificial intelligence to task. The pontiff delineated the technology\u2019s most concerning threats to humanity: replacing workers, accelerating war and exploiting the environment. At a ceremony honoring the holy teaching the day of its release at the Vatican, the pope was flanked by an unusual guest speaker: Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, one of the people behind the AI boom so worrying Leo. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say AI firm\u2019s engagement with Vatican risks creating \u2018feelgood\u2019 discourse that lacks critical examination Why did Anthropic\u2019s founder sit beside the pope during a warning about AI? In the first major written teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV took artificial intelligence to task. The pontiff delineated the technology\u2019s most concerning threats to humanity: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/anthropics-alliance-with-pope-on-ai-harms-all-in-good-faith-or-vatican-washing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthropic\u2019s alliance with pope on AI harms: all in good faith or \u2018Vatican-washing?\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}