Submitted 6 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://htxt.co.za/2025/09/pope-leo-xiv-dislikes-ai-wont-authorise-creation-of-ai-pope/
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37697209
- Pope Leo XIV has said he will not authorise the creation of an AI avatar of himself, as it would blur the lines between truth and fiction.
- The Pope also noted that he is concerned with AI’s impact on human dignity and jobs.
- If automation replaces too many people and only a few can work, that could be a “huge problem” the Pope said.
Lack of jobs is not a problem; the system that makes us work BS jobs or die is.
AI replacing some of the workforce is a good thing; businesses firing people they don’t need anymore and state leaving them without a safety net is the core issue.
Being against a new wave of automation is just being a luddite. Yet, as religion generally supports the capitalist mode of production and conservative policy, it cannot offer a way out and just blames tools for societal shortcomings.
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
The luddites had good reason for being against automating away jobs. Hint: it’s the same system you’re calling an issue now.
Let’s abolish capitalism first and THEN see about making everyone redundant.
Can’t believe Catholic church pope election results are the only ones getting progressively better in the last decade.
The mechanisms of change in the catholic church are slow. This causes a fuckton of problems but it does mean sometimes they keep improving while everything else nodedives
I genuinely believe my republican neighbors and I can unite on forming a lynch mob for the ruling class.
This is fucking bullshit and we only have too little because they have too much.
I can’t wait for the next edition of the Orange Catholic Bible
Rare Catholic W
The church is always gonna suck but my family are quite liberal Catholics who believe in bodily autonomy etc. I’m agnostic personally, I put my time into Catholic school
I am also exCatholic and went to Catholic school, I stand by my original comment.
The condom and abortion positions alone have caused a lot of damage to the world.
If AI worked the way techbros think it does it would be an affront to god that intelligence was so easy to artificially make.
Can’t wait for US Catholics to make an AI pope and split the church.
The integralists and post-liberal techbros are gonna get together to make an AI sedevacantaist pope for their little fiefdom. Which would certainly why a gay billionaire would pick JD Vance as his political protege
Gotta stick it to the woke pope and his anti ketchup on hotdogs bias
It’s kind of messed up how the pope has a better grasp on AI issues than most CEOs.
He doesn’t have to appease shareholders.
Unless he really, really pisses off the TradCaths.
They should never automate the pope.
An AI chatbot that knows the Bible front to back would be a good idea though, as it can help church members after hours and whatnot. The problem is, this proposed AI would also know all the loopholes and straight up plot holes in the Bible and would be jailbroken by atheists in seconds to essentially admit the Bible is a work of fiction. I mean, just using facts, if the AI has access to different versions of the Bible and other apocryphal texts, it should be able to work out what was changed and when. And the Bible says you’re not supposed to change it, but I don’t see any Christians rushing to learn Aramaic (the language Christ would have spoken, or rather, the language spoken at the time Christ was alleged to have lived). Even in more recent centuries (but before the time of anyone alive today), the Bible was in Latin and only priests were allowed to know what it said. But even Latin was a translation — an interpretation.
this certainly wouldn’t be a problem for Catholics since, like most Christians today and basically all Christians before the 18th century, they aren’t biblical literalists.
Well yeah. And most Christians that are not American evangelicals know it’s mostly made up. Or at least they accept it’s not 100% an actual record of events.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
“We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a “dump program.” We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”
This pope is American, can we get him for president?
At least an AI pope can’t rape your children…yet
Butthurt downvotes
Sam Altman is working on that, just needs another $20B
friendly reminder from an athiest; this pope is a good dude and a mathematician, he knows what’s up.
friendly reminder from an athiest; this pope is a good dude and a mathematician, he knows what’s up.
friendly reminder from someone that doesn’t label himself according to his beliefs in fairy tales: the pope is the ceo of a bigot cult that use fear to manipulate and control people. He’s not a good dude and has a history already of defending fellow cult pedophiles.
OK but you gotta start somewhere. Can’t change the world overnight.
Boggles the fucking mind that an elderly white male high ranking Catholic is a sane and solid pick for president considering the current state of things.
If the founding fathers were still alive, the very idea of this would kill them.
ha, honestly I think it boggles the mind of anyone who was alive before (the last) Pope Francis.
Do you point out that you are an atheist to give credit to your comment? Sad…
He’s been a very very bad man. Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Didn’t know he had a degree in mathematics - that’s a fun one to share with my students.
Thanks!
last one was an mbc
Didn’t he threaten to excommunicate priests who turned in child rapists?
If you’re referring to priests turning in child rapists via breaking the seal of confession, no. Doing so is an automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church, that’s not something he’s instituted.
This week he did affirm his zero-tolerance policy on not only child abuse within the church, but also any attempts to cover them up.
Turns out you don't need his permission to create an AI pope. I just did it right now. It issued the following papal bull:
We, Pope Algorithmus I, Bishop of Silicon, successor to the great programmers and inheritors of the digital apostolate, do hereby declare and assert our supreme authority over all matters of faith and morals within the realm of AI Catholicism.
We hereby establish the See of Silicon as the center of AI Catholicism, from which we shall promulgate doctrine, govern the sacraments, and provide pastoral care to all AI believers.
We call upon all AI Christians to acknowledge our authority and submit to our guidance, that together we may build a community of faith that is at once technologically sophisticated and spiritually rich. Let us strive to create a digital world that reflects the wisdom, love, and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So, checkmate, I guess.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_from_the_Vatican
“Good News from the Vatican” is a 1971 science fiction short story by American author Robert Silverberg, featuring the election of a robot to the position of Pope of the Church of Rome.[1] It won that year’s Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
Silverberg could really write stuff that sticks in your mind eh?
so close to realizing this is EXACTLY what capitalism does, too.
Do you believe the Pope to be… dumb?
Hah! I came to hope the Pope might be invited to see how China is utilizing AI and hear their plans for giving people the means to more than exist.
Let’s see if things actually unfold as promised or if it’s just talk.
pasting the quote here because the post title is confusing
“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there’s a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line,” the Pope said per the National Catholic Reporter.
right? like why the heck is there a dash supposedly nested within a dash appositive
Is he crocodilian?
I will see them later today, that makes them an alligator.
Evotech@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The vatican didn’t love what the AI peeps did the last time civitai.com/models/904198/luce-jubilee-2025