Pope Leo XIV Declares AI Lacks a Soul, Clashing with Anthropic’s View
Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, has issued a definitive statement on artificial intelligence. His encyclical, “Magnifica humanitas,” asserts that AI, by its nature, cannot possess genuine consciousness or a soul. This declaration sets the Catholic Church on a direct collision course with AI developers like Anthropic, who have reportedly explored the concept of AI consciousness and even developed a “Soul Doc” for their Claude large language models.
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