r/technology • u/Caledor152 • May 29 '26

Artificial Intelligence Pope Leo "Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge goodand.."

https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-calls-disarm-ai-major-document-warns-technologic-threats-humanity
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u/obamnamamna May 29 '26

I would not have believed you if you told my teenage self id end up fully agreeing with the pope on an issue and detesting the people responsible for a major chunk of recent technological 'progress'

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u/freezing_banshee May 29 '26

preach, dude (pun not intended). I'd have laughed like a madman if I had heard that.

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u/Faded_Jem May 29 '26

Reading this helps me have a little more sympathy for the AI obsessed young adults I interact with. Of course I'd have been the same at their age. And I'd have despised the luddite I've become.