Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah has warned at the Vatican event unveiling the encyclical that artificial intelligence governance cannot be left solely to technology companies, arguing for stronger external oversight as AI capabilities accelerate.<\/p>\n
Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his papacy to call for stronger oversight of AI, warning that rapidly advancing AI systems could spread misinformation, deepen inequality and normalize warfare.<\/p>\n
In the document, Magnifica Humanitas (\u201cMagnificent Humanity\u201d), Leo urged governments to slow the pace of AI development and ensure control over data and digital infrastructure is not concentrated among a handful of private companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a real possibility\u201d that AI could displace human labor \u201cat very large scale,\u201d Olah said, adding that supporting displaced workers would become \u201ca moral imperative of historic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olah said AI companies face commercial and geopolitical pressures that can conflict with the public interest and called for greater oversight from governments, religious leaders and civil society.<\/p>\n
This echoed the Pope’s comments, with Leo writing:\u00a0\u201cWhat is needed is a more active political involvement that is capable of slowing things down when everything is accelerating.”<\/p>\n
He called for \u201crobust legal frameworks, independent oversight,\u201d and protections for workers and children, while warning that AI-driven competition could intensify global tensions.<\/p>\n
He also cautioned against the use of autonomous weapons, writing that AI in warfare must be subject to \u201cthe most rigorous ethical constraints\u201d to preserve human dignity and accountability.<\/p>\n
Invoking the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, Leo warned against technological ambition driven by power, urging humanity to focus instead on the common good.<\/p>\n
Leo additionally criticized the growing concentration of digital power among major technology firms, warning it could lead to \u201cnew dependencies, exclusions, manipulations and inequalities.\u201d While acknowledging AI\u2019s engineering achievements, he argued that the technology cannot replace human moral judgment and advised priests against relying on AI to write sermons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah has warned at the Vatican event unveiling the encyclical that artificial intelligence governance cannot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,29889,29943,24776,29944,2761,7115],"class_list":["post-50537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-chris-olah","tag-independent-oversight","tag-magnifica-humanitas","tag-olah","tag-pope-leo","tag-technology-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}