A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling
In “Magnifica humanitas,” he fires a broadside against AI companies, warning of the technology's dangers in the same way Pope Francis did about climate change.
Washington Post
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Discussion
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@yuchenj_uw
Yuchen Jin
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Anthropic claimed the mandate of heaven. Even the Pope wants to become a Member of Technical Staff.
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@apples_jimmy
@apples_jimmy
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What was the idea here ? Talk about mass unemployment and hope the pope was going to view you as “ the good guys ” ?
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@rohanpaul_ai
Rohan Paul
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Pope XIV to Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah: The church and Anthropic will work together to guide humanity in the age of AI. “What a great sign of hope it is that, with our differences, we can listen to one another. This interchange clearly bespeaks the gravity of the [vide…
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@basedjensen
@basedjensen
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Claude is gonna get a benediction by Q4 2028
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@gavinpurcell
Gavin Purcell
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one company now literally had the mandate of god
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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[video] Hold on, so Anthropic now has the cathloic church and god on their side as well? I thought Andrej Karpathy was already the highlight.
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@tekbog
@tekbog
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alright it's over for openai im sorry st claude is here
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@sashadem
Sasha de Marigny
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“We dwell so often on what divides us, but humanity, full of dignity & conscience, has so much common ground. In conversations [we've] had with leaders across [faiths], we found one shared conviction: if this technology is coming, it must go well - for our common home & for the
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@timnitgebru
@timnitgebru
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In case you thought religious leaders were gonna advocate for your rights & not the dudes about to make billions with their IPO. I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with
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@christopherhale
Christopher Hale
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The Vatican spent a decade courting Silicon Valley companies to work hand in hand with the Church on developing ethical AI. Most ignored them. Marc Andreessen dismissed them. Peter Thiel bullied them. And more than anyone else, Christopher Olah and Anthropic said yes to them.
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@zslayback
Zak Slayback
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Time will tell on this, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet that the Vatican “walk[ing] together” with Anthropic more means plunking Chris Olah at roundtables for “conversation” and “dialogue” than anything else. [image]
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@zackkorman
Zack Korman
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Gotta hand it to Anthropic's marketing, getting the Pope to enshrine that AI is dual use in an encyclical is a hell of an achievement. [image]
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.