Michael Darius Eastwood · Research Notes · 3 July 2026 · Part of the Research evidence spine
Michael Darius Eastwood, independent researcher, London: originator of the embedded-correction alignment thesis (manuscript 8 December 2024, SHA-256 anchored: f0d1f38f).
Register entry 14 of 19. Domain: Religion/AI. Institution: Vatican/Anthropic. External date: 2026-05-25. Measured against: A1 (interfaith call) + A2 (~17 months after A1). Classification: CONVERGENT. Primary source: NYPost 2026-05-25; Church Times encyclical coverage
What happened
Christopher Olah (Anthropic co-founder) co-presents encyclical at Vatican Synod Hall.
Why it is in the register
Public reporting on the encyclical's presentation places Christopher Olah of Anthropic at the Vatican Synod Hall as co-presenter. The company whose experiment confirmed the manuscript's control-failure thesis stood beside the Pope while he presented a document framing AI through the same civilisational fork the book had published. The register records this as convergence of institutions, sourced to the contemporary press coverage.
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From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.
