Reverted all the way

When the new “pope” took over I appreciated his initial hardass approach to AI. He seemed to grasp the problem. Since then he reverted to Roman norm in all other ways, supporting the billionaires on Gaia and immigration. Now he’s supporting the billionaires on AI.

Via RealClear:

The speakers at the encyclicalʼs presentation will be: Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development; Anna Rowlands, professor of ethics and political theology at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom; Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic USA….

Leo isn’t against AI at all, he’s just playing the old brand game.

War is bad (when the wrong party runs it.)

Crime is bad (when the wrong gang commits it.)

Sin is bad (when the wrong denomination condones it.)

Pollution is bad (when the wrong company causes it.)

Bitcoin is bad (when the wrong fraudster sells it.)

AI is bad (when the wrong company sells it.)

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Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying OpenAI shares in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the OpenAI chatbots and the seats of those who sold OpenAI tokens. He said to them, “It is written, My house shall be called a house of Amodei, but you are making it a den of Altman.”