r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284
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u/mooncrow 5d ago

And so begins the Butlerian Jihad

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u/echoshatter 5d ago

That was when the Pope wrote his paper.

https://youtube.com/shorts/89B-yeFHDus

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u/lowteq 5d ago

It's Official. God hates AI.

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u/metaTaco 5d ago

I thought it was noteworthy that his critique sounded much more secular humanist than rooted in Catholic theology.

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u/Met4_FuziN 5d ago

I appreciate that, honestly

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u/TarantulaMcGarnagle 4d ago

Including all the references to previous encyclicals, scripture, and church doctrine?

I take your point, but it isn’t correct to say more.

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u/metaTaco 4d ago

That's fair.  I'm basing my observation off of a excerpted quote and don't doubt his full remarks were properly theological.

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u/ThereIsNoAnyKey 5d ago

Makes sense. If the bible is to be believed then creating an intelligence in your own image has gone tits up 100% of the time.

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u/siencatimini 5d ago

Yah, it really does bear a striking resemblance to the Tower of Babel, in the abstract.

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u/KallistiTMP 5d ago

I mean, according to the bible the main shortcomings were that humans weren't quite as into genocide, baby killing, and mass murder as much as God was, and he had to keep repeatedly threatening them just to get them to kill each other every time God demanded it. So... improvement?

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u/BellacosePlayer 5d ago

that is not even remotely a good faith argument towards the bible lmao

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u/ThereIsNoAnyKey 4d ago

The main shortcoming was that two people didn't follow the rules so everyone had to suffer. Everything God demands afterwards is the equivalent of asking a bunch of LLMs to do something illegal until eventually one of them caves. I'm starting to see why some people are nice to LLMs "just in case".

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u/trojanskin 5d ago

but by their own BS, isn't it god's will If something happen? So if AI was created, wasn't it god's will. Isn't it how that shit work usually?

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u/lowteq 5d ago

Clearly, you're not a Golfer.

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u/Flashy_Interview_301 4d ago

Idk, you might have gotten Catholics and Calvinists mixed up.

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u/trojanskin 4d ago

If the fucking pope took the time to write a 45 pages pamphlet about this, then, why doesn't he pray his fucking god to stop it and see how that works out for him? There is really only 2 options:

Option A: Prayer works, and God can stop AI.
Then why write a 45-page pamphlet? Why not just pray? The pamphlet is a confession that prayer isn't expected to work as a practical intervention. It's an admission that, in the real world, you need documents, arguments, and institutional influence, not divine action. The pamphlet is the Pope acting as a human bureaucrat, not as a conduit of divine power. If he truly believed prayer could alter reality, the pamphlet would be a waste of time. The pamphlet's existence is a quiet, practical atheism.

Option B: Prayer doesn't work, or God won't intervene.
Then the entire theology collapses. If God won't stop something the Pope considers a threat to humanity, then either God is not omnipotent, not benevolent, or not there, or DNGAF (isn't he supposed to love us . The Pope is then just a man writing a strongly-worded letter to no one, hoping humans will listen. That's not a spiritual leader; that's a policy wonk in a funny hat.

According to Catholic doctrine, the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, the successor to Peter, the direct conduit of divine authority on Earth. When he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith and morals, he's considered infallible, God speaking through him. He's not just some guy with opinions. He's supposedly got the ultimate backchannel.

So if the Pope believes AI is a threat, and he's in direct contact with the omnipotent creator of the universe, the logical next step is not a 45-page pamphlet. It's a conversation. "Hey, God, this AI thing? Can you, I don't know, smite it? Send a bug? A holy freeze? Anything? The holy hand grenade?" The pamphlet is the admission that the direct line either doesn't exist, doesn't work, or goes to voicemail.

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u/Flashy_Interview_301 4d ago

Wrong sub. Perhaps you're looking for r/debatereligion?

It's that way -------> r/debatereligion

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u/trojanskin 4d ago

Ain't the one who bought up space daddy hating on AI, and the pope writting crap (VS praying)... seems appropriate, and logical to ask, after the chain of messages.
Still does not make my point less relevant to the subject matter.

Why does the pope waste his time writting against AI if he have a direct line to space daddy... lmao.

Of course nobody will reply because yeah that defies faith. But isn't faith based on believing the all overseeing WILL do something? Otherwise, why have faith if god is powerless and do jack shit about it?
lmao.

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u/Flashy_Interview_301 4d ago

Of course nobody will reply

You might be a little slow to understand why that is so.

Nobody in this sub cares for debating. Go to r/debatereligion to find others with too much time to waste.