Anthropic Co-founder: AI Could Lead to Massive Unemployment, Supporting the Unemployed Will Become a "Historic Moral Responsibility"

BlockBeats News, May 25th, Co-founder and Head of Research at Anthropic, Chris Olah, stated at the Vatican on Monday local time that job displacement due to large-scale AI is "a very real possibility," and society must provide support for displaced workers. He emphasized that AI decision-making should "not be left solely to industry insiders," and external oversight from religious institutions, governments, and social organizations is crucial.

Olah also noted that current AI development is focused on "a few wealthy countries," with no mechanism in place to share the benefits of AI with poorer nations. He revealed that in explainability research in AI, some "mysterious and even unsettling" phenomena have been discovered, including models exhibiting internal states resembling "happiness, fear, sadness, and unease."

On the same day, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas (Great Humanity)," which extensively discussed AI's impact on employment, warfare, education, privacy, and human dignity, and warned against delegating "lethal decisions" to AI systems.

Reports indicate that Anthropic is currently valued at around $380 billion, with the company seeking further funding, aiming for a valuation of up to $900 billion.