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Not directly answering your question, but eventually this is also what might make a few companies more powerful than governments.
Thank you for this thoughtful write up. While I didn’t have a minor in religion, I have a certificate course in theology and having thought at a Catholic seminary for seven (7) years which shaped me both intellectually and spiritually; this is in addition to seeing myself as a good daughter of the Church who enjoys reading Encyclicals, i have also been curious and puzzled about the avalanche of commentaries on the document. So I agree with your observation. I’ve queued my study of the document to be tomorrow.
Bernie Sanders Campaign Office Keeping it real! 😎
I'm a bit peeved about the analogy.
RAG = Senses + memory retrieval
There, now it's all actual body parts, granted that's harder to visualize.
John Reeks I have mixed feeling on the impact on education. I have used LLMs to teach myself a lot of new things. It is like having an unreliable teacher that injects random errors in what they teach. And in some tasks it can be prompted in a way it simplifies human cross-checking. At the same time when an undergrad student confesses they have not read anything since chatgpt came out, or when it is obvious that some PhD students are not progressing due to it, the danger is obvious. We need a new pedagogy. Banning and monitoring in various forms will be part of it, but also dedicated technology developed in the university (those that have the money are already doing it), maybe hardware based solutions (like the monitoring laptop I described), and teaching how to use it properly. I have more problems with the ethics of using commercial models. I want the university to have ethical locally installed AI we can use without exploiting workers, damaging climate, and contributing to a political economics system that is abhorrent. I think we can figure out the pedagogy, if the ethics is fixed. But Covid did a number on the tech autonomy of our universities that are now all captured by microsoft or google. So unclear the UK can drive it.
Nick O'Rourke, taking over Taiwan doesn't mean taking over its chip prowess.
Could it be that some of the summaries were produced using ai
Loved the distinction that agents don’t just generate answers, they execute workflows and actions across systems. Luís Rodrigues
As you mentioned, despite religion, this is something to follow as well as something historic. Vatican done the same during the last major industrial revolution. Anthropic has been working with religious/spiritual people for a while now so it seems logic to see this document coming out.
While I haven't read it all, I see this as the Vatican official AI position not just for all to read but also for them internally. Priests like many other "positions/job" have been caught using AI and parishioners complaining about it. This is the official start of more AI literacy within the church which is something missing within every workforce.
I agree with the school point and wonder if catholic school will adapt their curriculum quicker than public schools. I've been introducing AI to my kids for last 2yrs and youngest is only 5. But it's key we better support our young by teaching them about AI not just how to prompt, creative thinking, but its impact on the earth and society. So they can understand the bigger picture, not just the marketing slogan of AI companies.
Well, what does it mean if for not taking over its industrial and intellectual prowess?
The real AI question is not capability, but who controls the outcomes and benefits it creates.
Mila F. more on the EdTech perspective here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edtechdots_edtech-artificialintelligence-educationinnovation-activity-7464935371517349888-uaVZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAABASq3UBx_ZHof0jcRRU7vKfBga-7ustLv4
Robert Felix Carter again - you raise real historical wounds — none of which should be minimised. But your framing actually gave me a thought: name a 2,000-year-old organisation — or company — with a perfect leadership track record.
Life is a full circle.
Sanders and the Pope saying the same things about AI
This is Malthus with a GPU.
Project demand forward on a straight line, freeze supply and efficiency where they are today, and you get a catastrophe. It's compelling maths. It's also exactly the same mistake people have been making for 200 years.
Energy per computation is falling.
Model efficiency is improving with every generation.
Inference costs are dropping faster than usage is scaling.
And the supply side isn't standing still either. SMRs, next-gen solar, and fusion investment are all accelerating precisely because the demand signal is there. MIT did the maths on today's footprint and drew a line into the future.
Malthus did the maths on population and predicted mass famine.
He couldn't see the combine harvester coming. Same error, different century.
I’ve noticed emotional intelligence is usually revealed in the moments where someone could react from ego, defensiveness, or pressure, but chooses not to.
Most people think EQ is just about being nice or calm. But knowing yourself well enough to catch your own reactions before they do damage? That's the real work. And it never really stops.
Brilliant graphic explaining the importance of EQ for any leader to be effective!
AI is not neutral once it enters an unequal system. It scales whatever incentives are already there. That’s why the real issue is not whether it can solve big problems, but who it is allowed to solve them for.