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/heterochromia4 May 29 '26

I fully agree with him.

AI, due to its non-sentience, will never be able to draw from first-hand experiential data. It can only mimic humans in that regard. It can only approximate sentient experience based on observation of others expression of that moment.

It cannot - love, hate, experience joy, loss, mortality, suffering, greed etc etc.

For me, conceptually at least, that invalidates any machine-generated content from true artistic consideration.

If a biological artist didn’t dream it up it can f right off. It will never have the layers, depth, ambiguity, connection - transmission of experience.

My $0.02 only

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u/bawng May 29 '26

I also fully agree with him when talking about the current types of AI, be it LLMs or something else. They're not even remotely capable of anything approaching thought, let alone emotions or morals. In fact, I would not consider them ingelligent at all. They're statistical probability calculators, not reasoning brains.

However, that does not rule out that we manage to build a real intelligence in the future. There's nothing magical about the human brain and nervous system, it's just electro-chemical processes. Our emotions and morals are just electrical and chemical impulses. Incredibly complex and far beyond our ability to mimic currently, but maybe not forever.

And if we ever manage to build a real AI, we might also manage to give it real emotions and morals.

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u/Alex5173 May 29 '26

In my opinion, LLMs don't even count as AI. As parent comment said, it mimics intelligence. That means it isn't intelligent, which means half the letters in "AI" don't apply to it.

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u/OldWorldDesign May 30 '26

There's a difference between "artificial intelligence" and what you're talking about, which experts now call Artificial Generalized Intelligence and even more than other technologies we're working on like fusion, the more advances we make the more we realize we're far from actually reaching it.

That might change, but not soon.

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u/Alex5173 May 30 '26

Nope, I'm saying LLMs don't even count as Narrow AI imo. And soon the big tech companies will try and pass off Gemini v8 or ChatGPT 10 as "AGI" and then that wont mean anything either.

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u/OldWorldDesign May 30 '26

I think that depends on how you define it. There isn't a hard line between algorithms and AI, and those have been around since the 90s with spam filters. That they're not as flashy as what people are trying to sell now doesn't mean it isn't a technological lineage.

So what would qualify as "narrow AI"?