In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://t.co/iG3Bnlzt2J
🚨🔵Zinedine Zidane on Eden Hazard’s career:
“Sometimes I feel a sense of guilt that I may have had a negative impact on Hazard’s career, even though the injuries were things I could never control. Maybe if he had never changed his environment, things would have been different. But that’s easy to say looking back.”
“When Hazard was at Chelsea, I genuinely wanted to sit down and watch Premier League games because of him.”
“He was one of those players who could make you stop whatever you were doing just to watch him. He was special, one of a kind, and that’s why the way his career ended will always feel painful.”