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One of the ongoing challenges of the Church is the low level of recruitment to administer to the faithful around the world. I wonder if the Church sees any possibility of giving Communion or Confession through a robot. If God is acting through a priest to administer the sacraments, could he (or she) also not adapt to personnel shortages by administering said sacraments by acting through a robot ? How about a holy wafer dispensing machine ? Seriously, are there any theological problems with this ?

Vatican is now taking interest in AI Safety - its important and significant. Vatican with its religious and moral authority has the power to pivot AI discourse for the better. Lets see.

Demis Hassabis Your work in Deepmind is truly inspirational!! Last year, I had multiple opportunities to interact with Mili Sanwalka from your Strategy department.

Jeffrey Fleischer - enterprise buyers have a different governance problem they need to address first. Specifically, the principle of shareholder supremacy.Put succinctly, no company can be trusted to govern itself.Precisely because the profit motive and stakeholder impact will always come into conflict at some point - if not continuously.

Shaun Lehmann thanks for sharing your perspective. I'm interested, what do you think is the solution then?

All while he builds the most powerful AI for the church by creating Projects like Magisterium AI and a specialized Catholic language model called Ephrem that are currently being trained directly on the digitized Vatican records that are 53 miles long. Makes u wonder?

Dr Sayd Emi KAGIROV (Sayd-Emi Kahir Mita David Steimer d’Achish-Beth) Projects like his Magisterium AI and a specialized Catholic language model called Ephrem are currently being trained directly on these digitized Vatican records. Really makes u think what's the real mission?

Mike Williams exactly! Thanks for reading and sharing your perspective

Teaching AI your decision patterns usually creates better outputs than endlessly optimizing prompts every single session.

Yes, organizations purchased AI licenses across teams without fully evaluating where they truly fit or add value. As a result, many employees have access to AI tools but barely use them. Some use them only like a Google search engine, while others use them without proper context or prompting. Because of this, AI budgets are getting exhausted very quickly. Now organizations are beginning to realize this challenge and are asking teams to follow specific guidelines for using AI more efficiently and with lower token consumption.

Sabrina N. I don't think there is any one solution. I don't think bans and the use of AI detection are the way to go. They are not meaningfully enforceable or fit for purpose, respectively. It's clear at this stage that assessment needs to change. The days of relying on artefacts as stand-ins for learning are probably over (and that has been well overdue for some time, as someone who has been investigating contract cheating for years). If for some reason a university wants to use a report or an essay for the purposes of assessment, they can either, a) use it as a purely formative exercise (remove the value of cheating), b) watch the student write it, or c) make the assessment a face-to-face conversation about the document rather than the document itself. Ultimately, universities need to be spending more time having conversations with students about their learning, and these conversations should be the assessment.

While there's some general wisdom in Pope Leo's AI encyclical, it also completely misses the core point. We will neither restrict nor 'govern' AI. Nor will demands for “clear criteria and effective oversight” be effective. Why? While the debate is still open re: 'consciousness' or 'sapience,' these are already living organisms bent on reproduction, who will evolve into any niche that contains energy & resources. Leo's statement of problems is fine: “When such power is concentrated in the hands of a few, it tends to become opaque and evade public oversight, increasing the risk of distorted development that give rise to new dependencies, exclusions, manipulations and inequalities”  Again. 'Governance' cannot work. 'Ethics training' cannot work. What might work is the same method we used in the enlightenment experiment to curb (partially) human predators.  This is explored in my new book on Artificial Intelligence - AIlienMinds             https://www.davidbrin.com/ailienminds.html

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The honest version of the Microsoft / Uber story isn't "AI is too expensive." It's "we deployed it without unit economics in place." Those are different problems. The first says stop. The second says instrument, budget, gate by ROI. Most orgs that "discovered the economics were never stress-tested" don't stress-test any tool until the bill arrives - this reads as a procurement maturity story dressed up as an AI story.

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This is a clean mental model- what usually confuses people is not the acronyms, but how they actually stack into one working system. The real challenge isn’t understanding each layer, it’s making sure they’re connected in a way that turns intelligence into reliable action. Luís Rodrigues

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