Anthropic’s sustained engagement with Vatican officials and affiliated ethicists since late 2025 has shaped trader views on follow-up meetings. Multiple closed-door sessions explored Claude’s constitutional principles, interpretability findings on model internals, and questions of machine consciousness, culminating in co-founder Chris Olah’s prominent role at the May 25, 2026, launch of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Recent reporting highlights Anthropic’s private lobbying to soften the document’s rejection of AI experience and moral agency, even as the Vatican selected the company for its ethics focus over other labs. Persistent philosophical differences on sentience, alongside the absence of announced post-May events, create uncertainty around near-term resumption despite the established dialogue channel.