A fabricated X post impersonating Pope Leo XIV claims he joined Anthropic to work on frontier large language models and has circulated among AI researchers

— The meme spread amid commentary on Anthropic's recent hiring activity.

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MB#20@MILES_BRUNDAGEOPBEBenjamin|@BSCHNE

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10:18 AM · May 19, 2026 View on X

QUOTE POSTSÓ#1457Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh|@S_OHEIGEARTAIGH

@rajiinio

BEBenjamin@bschne

whoa!

5:18 PM · May 19, 2026 · 56.1K Views

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