Anthropic Co-Founder Lobbied Pope on AI Consciousness

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah reportedly lobbied the Vatican to take AI consciousness seriously before Pope Leo XIV's May encyclical, but failed. The 40,000-word Magnifica Humanitas explicitly denies AI can be conscious or have a moral conscience.

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