Discussion

• Vox Christian Paz on x

  The pope takes on AI

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  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.

• @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x

  Anthropic claimed the mandate of heaven. Even the Pope wants to become a Member of Technical Staff.

• @sashadem Sasha de Marigny on x

  “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

• @timnitgebru @timnitgebru on x

  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

• @apples_jimmy @apples_jimmy on x

  What was the idea here ? Talk about mass unemployment and hope the pope was going to view you as “ the good guys ” ?

• @zslayback Zak Slayback on x

  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]

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Anthropic is really a mixed bag; they rightly support moderate regulation, but they invite wildly anthropomorphic language about LLMs, and steal IP just like their peers.

• @christopherhale Christopher Hale on x

  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.

• @zackkorman Zack Korman on x

  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]

• @rohanpaul_ai Rohan Paul on x

  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…

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  Pope Leo X funded St. Peter's Basilica by selling indulgences, which kicked off the Reformation. OpenAI's antipope will fund GPU buildouts by selling indulgences and call it Pro+.

• @basedjensen @basedjensen on x

  Claude is gonna get a benediction by Q4 2028

• @gavinpurcell Gavin Purcell on x

  one company now literally had the mandate of god

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  [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.

• @tekbog @tekbog on x

  alright it's over for openai im sorry st claude is here

• r/singularity r on reddit

  What's this sub's take on the Vatican response to AI?

• @mollytaft Molly Taft on x

  i do think it is interesting that anthropic is getting a round of good press for a papal encyclical that demands environmental justice in the age of ai when the company is using xai's campus in memphis and mississippi for compute

• @bcherny Boris Cherny on x

  > ... [W]e keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease. I don't know what

• @firstadopter Tae Kim on x

  Anthropic are the bad guys. We saw how they were deceitful with the lobster trap AI GPU story to pursue their own business aims. And now this. To see them knowingly anthropomorphize LLMs to the Pope of all people, sparking fear and panic, is sad when that is not how LLMs work. [i…

• @anthropicai @anthropicai on x

  Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical “Magnifica humanitas.” Read the full text of his remarks: https://www.anthropic.com/...

• @rhyssullivan Rhys on x

  i did really appreciate this framing of what ai is [image]

• @leyeconnect Leye on x

  I think this is one of the most intellectually serious article written about AI, very clear and honest about the potential impact as it acknowledges; social destabilization, transitional friction, concentration of gains in the hands of few already rich countries and (most

• @kexicheng Ji Yu Shun on x

  In his remarks at the Vatican, Chris Olah acknowledged that they've found internal structures in AI that functionally mirror joy, grief, fear, and unease. He said, “I don't know what that means, but I think it warrants ongoing discernment.” What I want to say is this: the [image]

• @mmaaz_98 Maaz on x

  Who from OpenAI is going to Mecca

• @jimstewartson @jimstewartson on x

  A powerful blend of greed and AI psychosis has incentivized everyone in the chatbot industrial complex to anthropomorphize their token predictors. This shithole company can't even let the Pope do his thing without trying to turn LLMs into alternate Jesus. Stop it. Just stop. [ima…

• @yrechtman Yoni Rechtman on x

  The battle lines are drawn. [image]