Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV as he delivered his first encyclical on the dangers of AI was a curious speaker: a self-declared atheist and the billionaire cofounder of one of the most valuable AI companies in the world.
Chris Olah, one of Anthropic’s cofounders and a prominent AI safety researcher who serves as the company’s interpretability research lead, acknowledged the peculiarity of his presence during the presentation at the Vatican last week.
