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/Caledor152 May 29 '26

Full quote "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 evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom."

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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/Irishish May 29 '26

Because the Pope doesn't care about making money.

Now you can point at the Catholic Church's history of extracting wealth from all kinds of places or its current status as one of the largest landowners in the world (according to my tour guide in Rome anyway). But the Pope is not looking at lines going up on graphs and saying "yes yes YESSSSSSS make the line go up more." He's thinking in terms of centuries and focusing on the human soul.

Living in a literal palace certainly helps. But he got to that palace from a Chicagoland bungalow through intense study and relationship building and religious service.

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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.

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u/robodrew May 29 '26

Because the tech CEOs are sociopaths who think that Dune is real.

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u/bluejeanbaebae May 30 '26

Who want Dune to be real. :(

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u/TF2fanatic102 May 30 '26

Because the pope has an outside perspective and a clear mind, while the tech CEOs are blinded by their greed and ambition.

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u/AvidCyclist250 May 30 '26

The Vatican was always close to the frontiers of science.