Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

Anthropic’s co-founder lobbied the Vatican in an effort to convince the Pope that AI could be conscious, a report has claimed. Christopher Olah, a senior researcher at the trillion-dollar AI company, attempted to sway Pope Leo XIV’s stance on machine consciousness ahead of a landmark papal address on the technology. The pontiff’s 40,000-word encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, published in May, dismi...