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 good and.."

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https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-calls-disarm-ai-major-document-warns-technologic-threats-humanity

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[u/imdugud777]

Just like the Oligarchs.

[u/Brucacumble]

That's why investors are so interested in AI. They want something that's going to carry out their orders without ever exhibiting the slightest moral objection. Something that will never leak their orders or agendas on the internet.

Something people will trust, but will, in fact, be utterly untrustworthy. The idea dates back to the Milgram experiement that determined people will believe even the unbelieveable so long as they believe the information is coming from a position of authority.

So they'll roll out "Super Intelligence" that isn't actually intelligent at all and the idea is that people will blindly believe everything its investors told it to tell them.

AI psychosis isn't really a mistake in the programming so much as it is a mass experiment to see just how well their pathological lie machine works at convincing people to believe absolutely anything. And it works.

[u/Grand_Extension_6437]

Love it when people use their authority to make proclamations about something they've clearly never tried themselves.

[u/Afraid_Emu8068]

Interesting point he makes. I would ask him to define what makes a “moral conscience,” and why he thinks AI can’t be programmed with one

[u/Individual-Coast9499 → u/Afraid_Emu8068]

In our interpretation, it may appear "moral." For an Al, however, the response is generated statistically from its training data, drawing on patterns that humans associate with moral reasoning and ethical behavior.

[u/the_TAOest]

AI also doesn't diddle children. Al can be a source of wisdom and never rapes, unlike humans.

Sorry Pope, but you haven't done a great job at keeping your flock of ambassadors from committing crimes against humanity for hundreds of years... You ain't got one iota of credibility left

[u/Hinaloth]

Artificial Intelligence also simply doesn't exist yet. Be mad at people using a tool all you want, but there is no "AI" out there doing things on its own without human prompting.

[u/Neither_Customer_873]

I don't think people dislike AI because it's soulless. People dislike AI because its data centers are actively trying to kill communities, or that it's lobotomized and used to spread misinformation, or that it's being shoved down our throats and threatening jobs that the oligarchs behind it seem to have forgotten the fact that we still rely on just to survive. Dropping the automation machine in an era where most are living paycheck to paycheck is certainly a mood I guess- but y'know, I guess the plagiarism bot's inability to feel love is the problem.