Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was in the audience as Leo presented his first letter on Catholic doctrine.
WASHINGTON — In the halls of the 400-year-old St. Peter’s Basilica of the Vatican, the focus on Monday was on a technology that’s in its infancy.
Pope Leo XIV presented a more than 42,000-word letter on artificial intelligence in his first encyclical as pontiff.
The letter was subtitled “on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” Its title, the Latin phrase, “Magnifica humanitus” — Magnificent humanity.
Among its declarations, the letter featured a direct
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