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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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Associated Press, “To make AI morally good, tech companies are turning to religion. But some say it isn't that simple,” published by The Washington Post on October 25, 2026. The article attributes this exact statement to Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, speaking at the Vatican presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical.

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Disputed The Washington Post/AP source is dated 25 Oct 2026 but says Olah made the remark earlier this year; the stored 25 Oct quote date is therefore incorrect. · 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