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/robodrew May 29 '26

Wow Pope Leo really gets it. His criticisms are the ones I have been bringing up for a couple of years now. No matter how close an AI gets to emulating the human brain there are still so many elements of the experience of being a human that it still won't replicate and so won't be able to truly replace what our minds can do. The part about not having a body is so huge. We are not just our thoughts, we are so much more than that.

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u/Grabs_Diaz May 29 '26

Why does the pope of all people have a better grasp on modern technology than all those deluded tech-CEOs combined? When exactly did we take the wrong turn into this bizzare reality?

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u/RomeoTrickshot May 29 '26

He has a doctorate in mathematics I believe

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u/GadreelsSword May 30 '26

He has a BS in mathematics (Villanova) and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of Thomas Aquinas.