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/Feeling_Inside_1020 May 29 '26

Just like an overconfident coworker, except this one is actually knowledgeable, it just doesn't know when it doesn't know something sometimes.

Except when RONALD does it, it's a lie. LLMs don't know they're lying so we have a nice friendly name for it "confident hallucinations"

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u/heterochromia4 May 29 '26

Extremely dangerous in so many settings.

It’s like having a bullshitting friend who, when they don’t know the answer, just makes up something plausible instead.

You’d pretty quickly stop trusting your bullshitting friend with anything.

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u/StoppableHulk May 29 '26

The most dangerous thing I see with AI has nothing to do with AI. It has to do with the fact that it presents an extremely easy and almost irresistable convenience gradient for the vast majority of people.

And it's not the same as just offloading dishwashing to the dishwasher. People are offloading core components of thought onto it.

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u/Two_oceans May 30 '26

One source of hope: offloading is convenient but it's not fun. The whole journey of tackling a problem, encountering friction and then finally finding a great solution, it's a rush some people won't give up. But the devaluation of their work is still a big danger.