Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness

There’s no AI company in the world more obsessed with the idea that their models may be conscious than Anthropic. According to new reporting from the New York Times, the company has for months been wining and dining religious scholars across the world in secret, NDA-secured meetings to convince them that AI models think and feel, too. Anthropic even reportedly went after the most iconic of all religious leaders: the Pope. Christopher Olah, a cofounder and senior researcher at the Claude chatbot maker, aggressively lobbied the Vatican after learning Pope Leo XIV’s official position on AI, per the reporting.

First reported by Futurism. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.