Anthropic staff lobbied Pope Leo XIV's advisers to take the possibility of AI consciousness seriously before "Magnifica Humanitas" was published

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The Holy See's positions on artificial intelligence.

Anthropic's private consultations with religious leaders on Claude's morality and possible consciousness, including its lobbying of Pope Leo XIV's advisers before the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.