Papa was not eaten by AGI | Seaside

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV revealed encyclical letter addressing the social implications of artificial intelligence. The letter, titled A Successful Person warned that “the use of AI is not just a matter of technology: when it enters the ways that affect people’s lives, it affects rights, opportunities, responsibilities and freedoms.” Next to him was the founder of Anthropic and the leader of the definition of the group Christopher Olah, an advocate of unity between the Catholic Church and one of the biggest players in AI.

The letter brought mixed reactions from the tech industry and the environment. Almost everyone believed that the document would be effective. Some critics question whether it went too far, and others believe it should they discussed general intelligence (AGI), which many companies insist is imminent. Others thought that the pope was a liar.

“It was a clear subtweet of the big tech CEOs who are out there openly saying they’re laying off workers to replace ‘low-level humans’ with AI, and who are also buying their way into political chambers where they happen to write the rules in their favor,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Tech Oversight Project.

The pope’s comments come amid controversy over the growing power of AI. Six out of 10 US officials feel they have “little control” over how AI is used in their daily lives, protests Against the construction of data centers is increasing, and some people have attempt to attack on AI CEO only.

As Olah’s appearance shows, the pope’s opinion describes AI as a technology that can have good uses, and his tone has mixed opinions. “I’m glad it’s challenging the AI ​​industry even though I think it should be,” Daniel Kokotajlo, an AI researcher and former OpenAI employee behind the non-profit AI Futures Project, said. Seaside. In contrast, Dr. Guru Sethupathy, GM of AI management at the software company Optro, was encouraged by the signs that “Pope Leo and the Vatican are not against AI but how to follow a reliable path that is good for people.”

The decision to partner with the Vatican was a wise move for Anthropic, a company that has built its business on a reputation for being more reliable than its competitors. Anthropic famous he has spent the past few months fighting with the Pentagon over the limits of military AI use, and joining forces with another powerful agency could help bolster his position — and allow it to help shape the Vatican’s future thinking.

One controversial aspect of the document, in many technical circles, was that it did not mention anything about AGI or superintelligence; it allows that AI systems “often surpass human intelligence in terms of speed and calculation ability” but says that they “lack the emotional, kinship and spiritual feelings that humans develop in intelligence.” Dean W. Ball, director of the Foundation for American Innovation, he wrote on X that the book “would have been better if it hadn’t been attracted to traditional academic/institutional AI principles…and more concerned with where AI is going. But instead of doing this, the encyclicals are deeply evasive, denying that AI ‘really thinks’ or ‘learns.’ very much.”

But the document should not do anything, several experts in the Catholic world said Seaside.

“This is a major document of Catholic social teaching,” said Sister Susan Francois, assistant director of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, he said. “It’s not about AI. It’s about protecting the human in the age of AI.” Brian Boyd, U.S. religion liaison for the Future of Life Institute and a Catholic cultural theology instructor at Notre Dame Seminary, said the document “is more of a call to action than a direct march.” The Pope called throughout the book for “the establishment of effective administrative instruments that can promote justice and eliminate the interference of technological forces,” but stopped short of accepting specific principles.

The Tech Oversight Project’s Haworth said he sees the book as “establishing a moral compass for the world, or for European countries… He said he hopes that the elected leaders will do something about AGI and do their part to hold the powerful technology companies accountable, instead of saying that the papal document will be “all things to all people.” He also called it “a warning to leaders, to politicians, because what this document spoke of was establishing a small group.”

For some, the lack of encyclical attention to AGI was not a problem, since they took it as if the pope was focusing on the global development of AI in the most vulnerable areas as the technology exists today, instead of the risks that could happen to all people if and when the laboratories arrive (unknown information(AGI)

Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of Opaque Systems, a startup that helps clients manage hidden information, said the pope is “looking at the system and highlighting what most of us in technology would recognize as dangerous to people. And I’m not talking about AGI.

Even before the current wave of AI, the centralization of technology companies can be dangerous. A problem to cyber security firm CrowdStrike has sidelined banks, hospitals, and airlines around the world, as well turn it off at Amazon Web Services has taken down the web, from Reddit to Venmo. For Fulkerson, the risks to the global economy only increase as power is concentrated in the hands of a few AI labs.

“Something I’ve seen in the news has been a strong focus on the power of the pope against the tech bros, but I think what everyone is missing is the bigger story here, which is that they’re looking at a system that’s at risk,” Fulkerson said. “We’re moving into a world where one or two labs are what make all the companies in the world – which means people are very weak, not able to handle it.”

In this book, the pope compares AI to the Tower of Babel, a building that he describes as “supported by equality that overcomes racial differences and that chose unity instead of communion.” The world must “avoid the ‘Babel disease,'” he wrote: “the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, equality that resolves conflict, and the pretense that a single language—even a digital one—can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into information and behavior.” Statistically speaking, AI has not become a new technology, but a biblical struggle. He wrote: “The danger of insulting people is an old and new temptation that is present in the practice of art today.” The weight of the sentences, not the technicality, is supposed to be its lasting touch.