Quoting Corey Quinn

Simon Willison's Blog / 5/26/2026

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Key Points

  • The post quotes Corey Quinn criticizing a perceived vendor-lobbying strategy involving the Pope endorsing Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah’s AI ethics framing in a spiritual document.
  • Corey Quinn describes the act of having a specific technical limitation canonized as the product’s “spiritual treatise” as the most effective form of lobbying he has seen.
  • The quote is contextualized around Christopher Olah’s influence and the Pope’s first encyclical, titled “Magnifica Humanitas,” focused on AI ethics.
  • The blog entry is explicitly a quotation collection by Simon Willison, published on May 26, 2026, with related tags for AI, Anthropic, and AI ethics.
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26th May 2026

I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.

Corey Quinn, on Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on Magnifica Humanitas

Posted 26th May 2026 at 2:28 am

This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 26th May 2026.

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