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[Bootstrapped Brain Early Warning Station @bb_ews]

https://t.co/7DW1LKGCfZ - We Wouldn’t Be Able to Control Superintelligent Machines https://t.co/JbTAfUObI5

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

The Vatican has produced a video to accompany the publication of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Pope Leo XIV in his first encyclical citing Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism to warn AI risks producing the exact condition Arendt identified as the prerequisite for totalitarian domination by destroying people's ability to discern between fact and fiction.

[Friendly Neighborhood Butlerian @TheOneButlerian]

@atmoio Welcome @atmoio, some of us already came to this conclusion 4 years ago. The danger with those who believe in AGI, is they minimize biological Intellegence to the point, that if you follow that thinking to its logical end, allows untold horrors to be done to all biological life.

[Mo @atmoio]

I'm done. I'm f***ing done.

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

Pope Leo XIV released this morning an encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on Artificial Intelligence.

It's the Church's first major statement on AI, algorithms, and the concentration of private tech power.

As someone who is at the Venn Diagram of tech x Catholicism. Here's what I found important:

[John-Clark Levin @JohnClarkLevin]

Professor Leocadie Lushombo of Santa Clara University up next, discussing the effects of AI on vulnerable people and the Global South.

#MagnificaHumanitas

[Víctor M. Marí Sáez @VictorMari6]

@iA 🧵
#LeonXIV
#MagnificaHumanitas

Profesora Leocadie Lushombo (Sta. Clara Univ.)

- El conocimiento, el aprendizaje y la conciencia son comunitarios y relacionales.

Mirada desde el Sur Global.
Ha citado, entre otros, el imaginario #Ubuntu 👍

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization."

"The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said.

"In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”

[Bootstrapped Brain Early Warning Station @bb_ews]

@RichRaho Will technoligarchs heed Pope Leo's words or will they go on to construct the next "Tower of Babel"?

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

The very first line of Pope Leo’s new encyclical: “Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.”

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

In #MagnificaHumanitas, Pope Leo quotes Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

[Bootstrapped Brain Early Warning Station @bb_ews]

RT @RichRaho: Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas is a masterclass in Catholic Social Doctrine which will reverberate for generations. Not only does…

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope Leo: “I want to thank Mr. Olah,” co-founder of @AnthropicAI. I accept his invitation to walk together, to listen and to speak, and together to find a path for humanity in this time of artificial intelligence.”

[Chris Olah @ch402]

The questions posed by AI are bigger than the AI community. We urgently need the world – religions, civil society, academics, governments – to participate in creating a positive outcome.

I'm glad the Catholic Church is engaging, and honored to speak at the presentation.

[Chris Olah @ch402]

https://t.co/udIVxLdid5

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

The Pope issued an urgent warning to "slow down" AI before it "dominates humanity"

WHY THIS IS UNUSUAL:

>A pope only writes a few encyclicals in their entire life (papacy)

>It's a formal letter to the entire Catholic Church (1.4 BILLION people) laying out official teaching on a major issue

>Unlike a speech or interview, it becomes part of Catholic doctrine

>The Pope decided to present this next to... an AI safety researcher?! Chris Olah is one of the most respected technical AI safety researchers alive - he basically invented mechanistic interpretability ("neuroscience but for AI"). The Vatican could have put anyone there, but they picked someone from the heart of the technical safety community, which is a major endorsement

>He signed it May 15 - exactly 135 years to the day after Pope Leo XIII signed Rerum Novarum in 1891. Rerum Novarum, according to Claude, is the single most important Catholic social document ever written - it created modern Catholic social teaching and shaped labor law across the West. By picking that date, Leo is saying, basically, AI is to our era what industrial capitalism was to 1891

QUOTES:

"Artificial Intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death."

"It is not permissible to entrust irreversible, lethal decisions to AI systems."

"The main drivers of development are private, often transnational, parties that are endowed with resources and the capacity to intervene that surpass those of many Governments."

"Never has humanity had such power over itself."

"It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required."

"Current AI systems are more 'cultivated' than 'built,' for developers do not directly design every detail, but instead create a framework within which the intelligence 'grows.'"

"we cannot allow a handful of actors to dictate [the future of AI]"

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

News: Pope Leo XIV's profound new encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," centers human dignity in an era of artificial intelligence, provides a masterclass in Catholic social teaching, and warns against the dangers of not only AI, but economies that are not "inclusive." 5 takeaways.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI.

Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist.

Now, Pope Leo XIV is releasing what’s expected to be an historic encyclical addressing AI tomorrow morning. https://t.co/i3RoHOhJQM

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

Anthropic’s Chris Olah at the Vatican press conference to present Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI: “There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale. If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions.”

Pope Leo wrote in the encyclical, “The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good.”