05/26/2026
Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, speaks at the official release of "Magnifica Humanitas": "Every frontier AI lab - including Anthropic - operates inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing. The pressure to stay commercially viable and to stay at the frontier of research. Geopolitical pressure. And the older, plainer pressures of pride and ambition. No matter how sincerely any of us intend to do the right thing - and I believe many of us do - we will always be influenced by those incentives.
That is why, if we want this technology to go well, it is enormously important that there be people outside those incentives - people who care about things going well, who are paying close attention, who are willing to say hard things and insist on safety, who are willing to be our earnest, thoughtful critics. It is through dialogue and mutual effort, through the push and pull, that humanity will achieve great things. That is what I see in Magnifica Humanitas, and it is why I am grateful to His Holiness and to the Church for taking up this work of discernment."
