Why is AI Company Anthropic Helping Launch Pope's Encyclical?

When the Vatican announced this week a co-founder of leading AI lab Anthropic will join the presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity"), it didn't seem like an obvious pairing at first. The Vatican has been critical of AI, offering warnings about the technology's threats to human dignity and the environment, and even launching an AI study group days earlier.