Pope Leo XIV says AI needs to be “disarmed”

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The Pope’s entire Encyclical Letter entitled, “On Safeguarding the Human Person In the Time of Artificial Intelligence” is available here:

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

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Catholic Church should be disarmed too

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Just now, Teletubby said:

Catholic Church should be disarmed too

Ok.

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Another passage that feels especially relevant in the era of AI “art”: 

"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

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sis just hates her generative gay pride pics 

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1 minute ago, River said:

sis just hates her generative gay pride pics 

When she said, “weapons systems,” she meant you generating AI images of your a$$ inside the Las Vegas Sphere and plastering them all over the web. End the reign of terror, put that hairy thing away!!

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2 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Another passage that feels especially relevant in the era of AI “art”: 

"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

It feels like he’s more afraid of the forbidden fruit effect, that believers would find the answers and knowledge that the church did best to hid and brainwash their believers 

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5 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Another passage that feels especially relevant in the era of AI “art”: 

"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

Why does this read like AI vocabulary though

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3 minutes ago, River said:

It feels like he’s more afraid of the forbidden fruit effect, that believers would find the answers and knowledge that the church did best to hid and brainwash their believers 

I’m gonna say probably not, given that the overwhelming majority of the speech is about social and economic justice. Not to mention that AI often reflexively avoids dispelling entire belief systems and will usually push back against any categorical attempt to claim that they’re false wholesale.

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Just now, RenegAde said:

Why does this read like AI vocabulary though

Because people have forgotten what smart people sound like, I fear 😔

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7 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Another passage that feels especially relevant in the era of AI “art”: 

"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

Another relevant passage that gets at the issue of AI as a form of consolidated labor exploitation:

“In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it and use it.”

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1 minute ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Because people have forgotten what smart people sound like, I fear 😔

You can sound smart without sounding like an LLM that was prompted to sound philosophical yet foward thinking.

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2 minutes ago, RenegAde said:

You can sound smart without sounding like an LLM that was prompted to sound philosophical yet foward thinking.

Cool. Doesn’t read like AI to me, just sounds like pretty standard academic formatting. 

Also FWIW

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Just now, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I’m gonna say probably not, given that the overwhelming majority of the speech is about social and economic justice. 

He’s the last person to speak about that lol

 

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1 hour ago, River said:

He’s the last person to speak about that lol

 

Goalpost shifted, but also: why is it so difficult to believe that he might genuinely want to use his platform for good? He consistently speaks out against wars, economic inequality, and social injustice. I get being cynical about organized religion, but it’s not insignificant that this Pope has consistently stood against the powerful and with the powerless since being appointed. Regardless of how you, I, or anyone may feel about the Catholic Church, him saying this is a net good.

Edited May 25 by Ladle Ghoulash