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Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem (htxt.co.za)
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cross-posted from: https://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.
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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] philosloppy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

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.