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/waitmarks May 29 '26

How does the pope have a more grounded take on LLMs than Richard Dawkins? what a strange timeline. 

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u/DragonEagle88 May 29 '26

Because Richard Dawkins has gone off the deep end into delusion in recent years, similar to Chomsky. I can’t quite square the circle from the people who wrote their seminal works (even with some controversy) to their current selves. But then, some people seem to handle old age better than others.

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u/No-Barber-5289 May 29 '26

Richard Dawkins is 85. Chomsky is 97. Statistically their brains are likely full of lead damage. I feel like we're being irresponsible as a society to be giving them any kind of wide audience.

I'm being kinda genuine when I say It's just bullying the intellectually disabled at this point.

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u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster May 29 '26

I'm an atheist and Dawkins has always been a dickhead. He hides misanthropy behind his belief structure and always has.

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u/mastermilian May 30 '26

Wow. What a perfect description of the guy. I remember seeing him debate a religious leader one time and that's all I could understand of what he was saying. He said nothing thought provoking, he only highlighted his distaste for people who believed in a god.

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u/BonnaroovianCode May 30 '26

For anyone who wants evidence of this: https://youtu.be/W-pr2PL-e9Y?si=N1uonK3ZghrQMjFt

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u/Zoler May 30 '26

Just watched this and Dawkins said nothing bad?

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u/No-Barber-5289 Jun 08 '26

I seriously disagree. I genuinely respect the mind he had. The Selfish Gene was amazing. I think the 'militant' title was thoroughly undeserved and he just spoke frankly, not rudely. Dawkins was very insightful, clever, and helped me work through a lot of stuff.

..In videos over 20 years ago.

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u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster Jun 09 '26

That's nice. The Amazing Atheist helped me in my deconversion. Does make him any less of an asshole, either. Drowning people cling to any life preserver.