Tech leaders and companies increasingly look to religion to help guide how artificial intelligence should define “right and wrong.” The reports focus on an idea raised by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that AI should reflect humanity’s moral viewpoints. Several outlets say major developers are also consulting faith leaders and philosophers as they work on ethical AI amid concerns about harm and misuse.
Coverage links this trend to religious discourse around AI, including references to the Vatican’s presentation of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah is cited saying these ethical questions cannot be answered by a lab alone and that traditions carry guidance developed over millennia. At the same time, some reporting stresses that the approach is complex: critics and experts warn that relying on particular religious traditions could privilege certain moral frameworks and potentially distort others.
