VATICAN CITY - Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah said Monday that the development of artificial intelligence cannot be left solely to technology companies, calling for greater oversight from religious leaders, governments, and civil society.
Speaking at the Vatican during the presentation of Pope Leo's first encyclical on AI, Olah warned there was "a real possibility" that AI will displace human labor "at very large scale," adding that supporting those displaced would be a moral imperative.
Olah noted that frontier AI labs operate under commercial, geopolitical, and personal pressures that can conflict with the broader interests of society. He argued that even well-intentioned researchers are influenced by those forces, making outside scrutiny essential.