The Pope Urges Vigilance About Who Controls AI (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/13/1316200/the-pope-urges-vigilance-about-who-controls-ai
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-13/the-pope-urges-vigilance-about-who-controls-ai
> Last week, sounding like a digital media consultant, Pope Leo XIV urged reporters to avoid "the degrading practice of so-called clickbait." He was addressing global news agencies at a gathering in Vatican City about the risks of a post-truth world, with a speech that also doubled as a severe societal warning about the dangers of AI.
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> "Artificial intelligence is changing the way we receive information and communicate, but who directs it and for what purposes?" the pontiff said, [2]according to Reuters . "We must be vigilant in order to ensure that technology does not replace human beings."
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-13/the-pope-urges-vigilance-about-who-controls-ai
[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pope-leo-urges-news-outlets-not-sell-out-click-bait-2025-10-09/
AI is capital (Score:2)
And it's going to be owned by a handful of billionaires and used for automation that replaces labor that otherwise gets paid for by those billionaires.
It's post capitalism without the socialism. And it's going to suck for everyone except about 6000 out of 6 billion
Said the guy who controls God (Score:2)
AI will disrupt they way of thinking for a lot of religions in the long term. Especially when the next generation is brought up with AI schooling that makes them "worship" AI.
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In this trading of one hallucination for another is at least one advantage, no one has begun a war over which AI is better.
At least not yet.
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The birth of the Mycogenians! :)
I don't think so (Score:2)
The billionaires are happy to use the existing power structures of religion and they're the ones that control AI because they control the capital backing AI.
Peter thiel is going around taking about Christian end times even though he's gay.
Like Dan McClellan says, the Bible is not uni vocal and you people give it meaning.
Why should we care what the Pope says? (Score:2)
If we're not Catholic ourselves, I mean.
I'll tell you why: 2/3 of the Supreme Court justices are Catholic.
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One of those Catholics is Sotomayor, one of the group of "progressive" justices. What exactly are you ham-handedly trying to imply?
Best,
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I'm not implying anything. I'm saying the Pope's opinion is particularly significant to more than half the Supreme Court. They won't necessarily take those words as marching orders; I doubt that they would even agree that all the other Catholics on the court are good Catholics. But it means those words are automatically more weighty than if, say the Dalai Lama or the Lubavitcher Rebbe said them.
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I don't recall seeing much concern about Joe Biden being a Catholic. But it's important here?
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For once we have a Pope who is aware of tech related concerns. Christian or not, "We must be vigilant in order to ensure that technology does not replace human beings" is pretty relevant.
mk (Score:2)
Thanks for the opinion pope. Now for an equally important opinion on tech, let's see what Homer Simpson thinks about AI...
Why ? (Score:2)
Why is this even news ?
Don't worry (Score:2)
As long as we can keep AI from getting into the hands of a multi-billionaire tribalist who owns car, robotics, brain chip, social media, and rocket companies we'll be fine.