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Quoting Corey Quinn

Cloud architect Corey Quinn praised Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Pope Francis's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*, calling it the most effective vendor lobbying effort he has ever witnessed. The papal document elevates AI ethics as a religious imperative, effectively canonizing Anthropic's technical limitations as spiritual doctrine.

read1 min publishedMay 26, 2026

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, on Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Magnifica Humanitas

Tags: ai-ethics, corey-quinn, anthropic, ai

source & further reading
simonwillison.net — original article Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI datasette-agent 0.1a4 Quoting Armin Ronacher
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