@markpoloncarz Teddy Roosevelt regularly staged boxing matches in the White House. He lost sight in one eye from a detached retina because he himself was fighting at the White House in one of these matches.
And the Founding Fathers regularly dueled with pistols, one of them died doing so.
I'm a Catholic who's building a company using AI.
I'm summarizing Pope Leo's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (about AI).
Here's part 1 (a mix of quotes and summaries):https://t.co/RRHHA9nXkB
The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion.
But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984?
This is the real alignment problem.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians?
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.
i was shocked to discover that there are some people who actually can't visualize images when reading a book coz for me, an entire movie is playing out in my head with the perfect cast
Maybe it’s the Gen-Z in me, but i fully don’t care about privacy. I am post-privacy. I am giving OpenAI access to all of my finances, all of my health data, everything, I don’t care anymore
The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media.
I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.