Quoting Corey Quinn
Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah influenced the Pope's AI ethics encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
“I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.”
Corey Quinn is quoting that Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah influenced the Vatican's first AI-focused encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' effectively embedding Anthropic's AI safety framing into Catholic doctrine. If accurate, this represents an extraordinary soft-power play—shaping a document with moral authority over 1.4 billion Catholics. It signals that AI companies are now operating at the level of religious and geopolitical institutions in the AI governance debate.