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Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI
Simon Willison comments on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical addressing artificial intelligence, marking a significant moment in which the Catholic Church formally engages with AI ethics and governance at the highest doctrinal level. An encyclical represents one of the most authoritative forms of papal teaching, suggesting the Church is staking out a formal position on AI's societal and moral implications. The body of the source item appears empty, so the specific content of Willison's notes is unavailable, but the event itself signals growing institutional and religious engagement with AI policy.
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah speaks at Vatican on Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical 'Magnifica humanitas'
Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical titled 'Magnifica humanitas: On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence' on May 25, 2026, and Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at its presentation in Vatican City. Olah acknowledged that frontier AI labs operate under incentives that can conflict with doing the right thing, and called for external moral voices—including religious institutions—to serve as informed critics of AI development. He highlighted three areas requiring discernment: AI's impact on the global poor and labor displacement, the conditions for human flourishing in an AI-saturated world, and the uncertain nature of AI models themselves, noting that his interpretability research has found internal states that functionally mirror emotions. The remarks represent Anthropic's effort to broaden the AI governance conversation beyond the technical community.
Data Points: DeepSWE Benchmark, DeepSeek V4 Price Cuts, MAI-Image-2.5, Mythos Security Findings, MCP Stateless Update
This edition of The Batch covers five distinct AI developments: Datacurve's DeepSWE benchmark claims to fix critical grading flaws in SWE-bench Pro with hand-written verifiers and harder tasks; DeepSeek permanently cuts V4 Pro prices by 75%; Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 debuts third on the Arena leaderboard; Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found over 10,000 high/critical vulnerabilities in the first month of Project Glasswing, with remediation badly lagging discovery; and the Model Context Protocol proposes removing stateful sessions to enable stateless, load-balanced remote servers. Each item reflects meaningful movement in evaluation methodology, inference economics, multimodal generation, AI-assisted security, and agent tooling infrastructure.
Anthropic opens Milan office to support Italian enterprise, research, and developers
Anthropic is opening its sixth European office in Milan, led by Thomas Remy (Head of Southern Europe), to serve Italian enterprise, research, and developer communities. The office already has active deployments with major Italian companies including Generali Group, Unipol Group, Enel Group, Pirelli, Angelini Pharma, and Bracco Group. Notable deployment cases include Satispay compressing an 18-month engineering roadmap into seven months and Bending Spoons co-authoring the majority of code changes with Claude Code. The opening coincides with Anthropic's engagement with the Vatican around Pope Leo XIV's AI-focused encyclical.