Anthropic's Olah says AI must be guided from outside Big Tech
- May 29
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REUTERS — Speaking at the presentation of Pope Leo's first encyclical, addressing the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, Chris Olah said there was "a real possibility" that AI will displace human labour "at very large scale".
"If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions," the Canadian said, sitting alongside the pope.
He added that companies like his faced strong commercial, geopolitical and personal pressures that can be at odds with the broader interests of society.
"Every frontier AI lab ... operates inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing," he said, adding that even well-intentioned researchers remain influenced by those forces.
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