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Anthropic Pressed Vatican to Reconsider AI Consciousness Stance, Court Documents Reveal

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Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah quietly lobbied the Vatican's inner circle to reconsider its position on artificial intelligence consciousness, according to reporting from major news outlets in October 2026. The effort came after the Vatican issued a landmark doctrinal statement in January 2025 explicitly declaring that AI systems "do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain" and therefore cannot bear moral responsibility.

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