Oh, God! Anthropic's play for godliness

​The Pope recently stood alongside Anthropic’s co-founder to unveil Magnifica Humanitas, revealing the Vatican’s frankly flat stance on AI and human dignity.

​But when the Pope calls for AI to be “freed from logics of domination, exclusion, and death” while presenting that document beside the people building these systems - and while the Church holds financial investments in those same companies - it’s hard to know whether to laugh or scream.

​Alix, along with a couple of friends, is going live to unpack this moment: Anthropic’s continued canonization as the “good guys,” the Church’s real financial relationship to the AI industry, and the serious risks of every major institution (government, military, education, and now religion) continuing to reinforce the narrative of AI inevitability all at once.