The Pope's AI Adviser Warns of 'Cartel' Behavior Among Big Labs

Father Paolo Benanti, who advises the Catholic Church on AI, told WIRED that superintelligence warnings distract from the need for democratic regulation. He said that when a small group of companies dictates an industry's rules, 'this has a really clear name: a cartel,' and ethics cannot belong to a company's board.

• Benanti: frontier labs' superintelligence narrative is self-interested and market-driven
• He called for democratic regulation and standards keeping models under human control
• Benanti likened a small group of companies dictating industry rules to a cartel
• In May, Pope Leo XIV made AI the subject of his first-ever encyclical