Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic call for AI regulation, proposing financial intelligence model over nuclear arms control
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Shlomit Wagman
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Summary
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calls for AI to be regulated and disarmed in service of humanity. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah stood alongside the Pope at the Vatican, acknowledging that AI companies operate under conflicting incentives. A Harvard fellow and former financial intelligence chief argues that AI governance should follow the global framework used to combat ISIS financing rather than nuclear arms control models.
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Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, acknowledged that AI companies operate 'inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing.'
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has stated that 'the next tier of risk is actually AI companies themselves.'
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