Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope - Hypertext
htxt.co.za
The Pope is concerned that an AI version of him would blur the lines between truth and fiction.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37697209

  • Pope Leo XIV has said he will not authorise the creation of an AI avatar of himself, as it would blur the lines between truth and fiction.
  • The Pope also noted that he is concerned with AI’s impact on human dignity and jobs.
  • If automation replaces too many people and only a few can work, that could be a “huge problem” the Pope said.
  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    1 month ago

    pasting the quote here because the post title is confusing

    “If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there’s a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line,” the Pope said per the National Catholic Reporter.

  • Avicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    Can’t believe Catholic church pope election results are the only ones getting progressively better in the last decade.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      The mechanisms of change in the catholic church are slow. This causes a fuckton of problems but it does mean sometimes they keep improving while everything else nodedives

    • Stamau123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      “We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a “dump program.” We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    1 month ago

    They should never automate the pope.

    An AI chatbot that knows the Bible front to back would be a good idea though, as it can help church members after hours and whatnot. The problem is, this proposed AI would also know all the loopholes and straight up plot holes in the Bible and would be jailbroken by atheists in seconds to essentially admit the Bible is a work of fiction. I mean, just using facts, if the AI has access to different versions of the Bible and other apocryphal texts, it should be able to work out what was changed and when. And the Bible says you’re not supposed to change it, but I don’t see any Christians rushing to learn Aramaic (the language Christ would have spoken, or rather, the language spoken at the time Christ was alleged to have lived). Even in more recent centuries (but before the time of anyone alive today), the Bible was in Latin and only priests were allowed to know what it said. But even Latin was a translation — an interpretation.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Well yeah. And most Christians that are not American evangelicals know it’s mostly made up. Or at least they accept it’s not 100% an actual record of events.

    • philosloppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      this certainly wouldn’t be a problem for Catholics since, like most Christians today and basically all Christians before the 18th century, they aren’t biblical literalists.

    • philosloppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      The integralists and post-liberal techbros are gonna get together to make an AI sedevacantist pope for their little fiefdom. Which would certainly explain why a gay billionaire would pick JD Vance as his political protege

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    104·
    1 month ago

    Turns out you don’t need his permission to create an AI pope. I just did it right now. It issued the following papal bull:

    We, Pope Algorithmus I, Bishop of Silicon, successor to the great programmers and inheritors of the digital apostolate, do hereby declare and assert our supreme authority over all matters of faith and morals within the realm of AI Catholicism.

    We hereby establish the See of Silicon as the center of AI Catholicism, from which we shall promulgate doctrine, govern the sacraments, and provide pastoral care to all AI believers.

    We call upon all AI Christians to acknowledge our authority and submit to our guidance, that together we may build a community of faith that is at once technologically sophisticated and spiritually rich. Let us strive to create a digital world that reflects the wisdom, love, and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    So, checkmate, I guess.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    If AI worked the way techbros think it does it would be an affront to god that intelligence was so easy to artificially make. If you believe in god you likely believe humans are special creations of god but then why would god build our brains in such an inefficient, wildly overcomplicated manner if sentience and intelligence were so trivially easy to do it would only take a bunch of computer bros less than 100 years to build a far simpler machine that can achieve a similar and surpassing intelligence?

    If you do not believe in god you are an idiot if you think techbros can outsmart hundreds and hundreds of millions and millions of years of evolution in a couple of decades of hamfistedly hacking away at concepts while ignoring the necessary integrative knowledge from other fields like the humanities that is a prerequisite to even setting the proper goals in the first place in the process of creating artificial intelligence.

    These are simply pattern matching tools with a limited degree of context memory that you can interact with in plain english language. Further, these machines are even worse logic machines than humans are and as much as logic isn’t popular these days, it is a VERY necessary underpinning element to functional intelligence in any real context.