Chris Olah
Co-founder and interpretability researcher, Anthropic · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Founder of mechanistic interpretability as a field; Anthropic co-founder who also leads its dialogue with religious leaders on Claude's moral status.
News mentioning Chris Olah (4)
- Pope Leo XIV on AI art: 'Algorithms lack the spark of humanity' ★★★
On Oct 2, 2026 Pope Leo XIV posted on X that there is "an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity", and called for the…
- NYT: Anthropic's summits with religious leaders on Claude's possible consciousness, and Chris Olah's private lobbying of the Vatican ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 the New York Times (Elizabeth Dias) published interviews with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah and about 20 religious and philosophical leaders who took part in Anthropic's summits on Claude's moral character and whether it might be conscious. The meetings began with about 15…
- 'Pacing the Frontier': 1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development ★★★★
On 2026-07-28, more than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta (1,386 by late September), including Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark and Ilya Sutskever, signed "Pacing the Frontier". The statement asks the US government to support an…
- Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas", is devoted to AI ★★★
On 2026-05-25 the Vatican published Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, on "safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence". It is the first papal encyclical centred on AI. It says AI only imitates some functions of human intelligence, rejects AI-enabled war…
Posts (1)
- Pacing the Frontier — a statement from employees of frontier AI companies original ↗ Pacing the Frontier (frontier-lab employees) · other · 2026-07-28
Over 1,100 (now 1,386) OpenAI/Anthropic/GDM/Meta employees, incl. Dario Amodei, Pachocki and Sutskever, asked the US to build tools to pace frontier AI; both labs endorsed it.
Videos (3)
- Anthropic BEGS Pope To Declare AI 'Personhood' Breaking Points · 2026-10-02
- OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now 'Hell' AI Explained · 2026-10-01
- Anthropic's Chloe Lubinski explains how AI works (in 14 minutes) Alliance for Responsible Citizenship · 2026-07-01
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