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Chris Olah

Anthropic co-founder, pioneer of mechanistic interpretability

These are not questions a lab can answer. They are questions traditions like yours have carried for millennia.

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Christopher Olah, Anthropic co-founder, said at the Vatican’s presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical: “These are not questions a lab can answer. They are questions traditions like yours have carried for millennia.” AP published this report October 25, 2026.

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AI Verified AP’s October 25, 2026 report reproduces this two-sentence statement and identifies Chris Olah as Anthropic co-founder speaking at the Vatican AI-encyclical presentation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

The first is our duty to the global poor. There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale. If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions. This task will be difficult e...

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth