Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical today, Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), focused on “the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.” One of the speakers alongside him was Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic and head of the company’s interpretability research. He is the only AI industry figure invited. Leo XIV chose his papal name in honor of his predecessor. The parallel he’s drawing isn’t subtle. Where Leo XIII addressed factory workers and the concentration of industrial wealth, Leo XIV is addressing the displacement of human judgment by machine intelligence and the concentration of AI capability in a small number of companies and governments.