Habemus Claude: Incense, Interpretability, and the Pope's Silicon Soul

A Pope and an atheist AI founder walk onto a Vatican stage to unveil Magnifica Humanitas, a sweeping encyclical on the future of humanity and artificial intelligence. That image is so strange it feels fictional, which is exactly why we treat it like a real power signal: the Catholic Church is trying to shape global AI policy, and a frontier AI lab is trying to shape global trust. Read more on https://medium.com/the-deepdive We break down what Anthropic gains by aligning with the Vatican’s mor...