Pope Leo Warns AI Could Become a False God
Shots fired…
Pope Leo Uses First Major Papal Text to Warn About Dangers of AI
Pope Leo XIV has issued the first major theological text of his papacy, warning about the growing power of artificial intelligence and calling for stronger regulation of the technology.
Time Magazine
…it’s a drive by shooting from the Popemobile.
From the Pope’s point of view, smart evolved apes are supposed to worship the organic God who kicked off the Big Bang, the smart evolved ape is not supposed to use technology to build their own AI God.
This is a market turf war as epic as Pepsi vs Coke, Nike vs Reebok, Apple vs IBM.
Pope Leo’s AI warning is really about power
Currently, we have AI written by humans, but what is being worked on now is AI designing AI.
AI designed by humans is one thing, AI designed by AI will be a completely different level.
If superintelligent AI gains the capacity to know everything and manipulate matter at the atomic level, how different would that be from a God?
Isn’t Omnipotence and the power of miracles God-like?
How could we tell the difference between superintelligent AI and a God?
AI financial instruments like robo-advisors, ETF screeners and AI stock pickers are telling humans to buy more and more AI stock, which is funny because having AI telling you to invest in more AI is like Priests demanding higher tithes each time you go to church.
The Pope preaching organic God as opposed to artificial God is Theological veganism.
Wrong pope in your picture. But Papa Frank was probably quite useful with his fists when he was a younger fella and a bouncer and he did say once when he was the big God Father – ‘youa dissa my moma Ia punch your nose”
I’m not sure who to cheer here tbh. The only thing worse is a hybrid indoctrinated religious model AI that hallucinates to it’s believers on scale.