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May 29, 2026

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Pope Leo XIV publishes Vatican's first AI encyclical

The Holy See's first encyclical letter on artificial intelligence, co-presented at launch with Anthropic interpretability lead Christopher Olah. Encyclicals are the highest-tier teaching documents in Catholic doctrine — an unprecedented legitimacy event for the frontier-lab interpretability framing.