Anthropic co-founder exposes AI's 'unsolved problem' with chilling message for humanity
Anthropic co-founder exposes AI's 'unsolved problem' with chilling message for humanity
Hazel Gandhi Mon, May 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM UTC
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Co-founder of US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, Christopher Olah
Anthropic's co-founder, Chris Olah, revealed the 'unsolved problem' the world is facing with AI (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Anthropic's co-founder, Chris Olah recently spoke at the Vatican as part of Pope Leo's first encyclical, addressing the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, and said there was "a real possibility" that AI will displace human labour "at very large scale".
Olah, a 33-year-old Canadian machine learning researcher, addressed the crowd on Monday and spoke about how many people might lose their jobs due to AI. "If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions," he said and added, "This task will be difficult enough, but I worry most dialogue misses a harder challenge: AI development is concentrated in a handful of wealthy nations. How will we ensure that the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this."
Aside from the Pope's event, AI has already led to thousands of jobs around the world being displaced, with most recent layoffs impacting Meta, where the company announced cutting 8,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, just last week.
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He added that companies like his faced strong commercial, geopolitical and personal pressures that can be at odds with the broader interests of society. "Every frontier AI lab operates inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing," he said.
In late February, Anthropic clashed with the White House after the company attempted to limit how the Pentagon used it tools, especially in situations related to warfare. While other companies like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini continued working with the administration, Anthropic declined to give autonomous access to the administration over its technology, leading it to be blackslisted from several federal agencies.
Olah recently spoke at the Vatican as part of Pope Leo's first encyclical, addressing the challenges posed by AI (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
On Monday, Pope Leo, too, called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
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According to the , "Magnifica Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity), Leo's first encyclical, has been eagerly awaited ever since history's first U.S.-born pope announced days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today.
In the text, Leo denounced the "culture of power" driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare. He declared that it was "not permissible" to entrust irreversible, lethal decisions to AI systems, setting up another flash point between the American pope and the Trump administration, which has worked aggressively to deregulate AI development.
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"Artificial Intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death,″ the pope told a special Vatican presentation of the encyclical, one of the most authoritative types of teaching documents a pope can issue.
Leo also addressed the concentration of AI and its power in the hands of a wealthy few countries.
"It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required," he wrote. "A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few."
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