Christopher Olah, co-founder of the US artificial intelligence company Anthropic, answers questions during a news conference in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall May 25, 2026, after the presentation of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, focused on the rise of artificial intelligence. Photo: OSV News/Yara Nardi, Reuters. Pope Leo sees AI as a powerful tool that can serve the common good, but never as a substitute for human intelligence, conscience or relationships, since it processes data without understanding meaning, love or truth. That, by the way, isn’t me. That’s Claude, the artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by the American software company Anthropic.…
