Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical on Monday, calling for artificial intelligence to be 'disarmed,' but it was the man standing beside him who delivered the real warning.
Chris Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, told an audience at the Vatican's Synod Hall that developers like him are driven by 'incentives' they can't escape. Ambition, financial pressure, and competition all shape how AI companies build their products, and no amount of good intention can override those forces.
