Pope Leo XIV Calls for AI to Be 'Disarmed' as Vatican Hosts Summit with Mechanistic Interpretability Pioneer
Pope Leo's open letter demanding AI disarmament coincided with an Athens summit where Anthropic's Chris Olah reportedly appeared — but critics argue the Vatican's framing plays into the hands of an 'oligarchic tech priesthood.'
Pope Leo XIV issued an open letter calling for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed," as @WLOS_13 reported, timed to an AI Summit on Faith and Artificial Intelligence in Athens, Greece. At the same event, Elder Gerrit W. Gong shared what was described as "a soaring vision of hope in an AI future." The summit reportedly featured Chris Olah, Anthropic's head of mechanistic interpretability research, bridging the gap between frontier AI safety work and religious institutional concerns.
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