How Freaked Out Should Silicon Valley Be by Pope Leo?
May 29, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has chosen a side in the AI battle gripping Washington: He’s Team Anthropic.
No, Leo isn’t weighing in on the Trump administration’s ongoing battle with the frontier AI lab and no, he isn’t donating to its super PAC of choice. But on Monday when he unveiled Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical letter, on “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” it was hard to miss that Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was there at the Vatican to effectively give it his blessing.
