GoKawiilVatican AI adviser Paolo Benanti warns against lab-led AI safety rules
Father Paolo Benanti, who advises the Catholic Church on artificial intelligence, told WIRED that leading AI labs are shaping safety debates in ways that exclude outside voices. He argued that ethics and regulation should be decided through public, democratic debate rather than dictated by the companies building the technology.
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Benanti's comments push back against recent proposals from figures like Anthropic's Dario Amodei for third-party model evaluations and restrictions on techniques such as distillation, suggesting these ideas may serve the labs' competitive interests as much as safety concerns. His framing implies that allowing a handful of firms to set the rules could concentrate power over AI governance in ways that sideline broader societal input.
- Benanti says AI ethics should be decided through public debate, not company boards
- He criticizes 'cartel'-like behavior among frontier AI labs shaping their own regulation
- He favors control standards over restricting AI development methods like recursive self-improvement
Source: wired.com — Joel Khalili, 2026-09-23
Published there as: “The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs”
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