Pope adviser Paolo Benanti warns of ‘cartel’ behavior among major AI labs
Paolo Benanti, a priest who advises the Catholic Church on technology, told WIRED that focusing on speculative superintelligence risks distracting from the need for democratic oversight of AI companies; he warned that frontier labs shaping rules for the industry can act like a cartel and exclude public debate. The piece references recent safety calls from figures like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and notes the Pope’s recent encyclical on AI as part of a broader push for international and ethical constraints on AI development.