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.

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 https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/2058960462256210268 , on Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/25/pope-elevates-ai-ethics-religious-imperative-with-first-encyclical/ on Magnifica Humanitas Tags: ai-ethics https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics , corey-quinn https://simonwillison.net/tags/corey-quinn , anthropic https://simonwillison.net/tags/anthropic , ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai