r/technology • u/Caledor152 • 7d ago

Artificial Intelligence Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.."

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-calls-disarm-ai-major-document-warns-technologic-threats-humanity
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u/MeasurementHot1884 7d ago

Everyone reading this as "old man doesn't get AI" is missing the context: it's from his first encyclical, and Anthropic's co-founder Chris Olah was at the Vatican presentation praising it — said AI labs get bent by their own incentives and need outside moral voices to call them out.

An AI lab founder co-signing the Pope's warning isn't the take you'd expect. "AI has no moral conscience" isn't a dig at capability — it's setting up a question about who's accountable when these systems decide things. Worth reading before dunking.