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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

thom nickels It is very hard to deal with when the Pope rarely speaks of Jesus. At one point he mentioned the President more than 10 times and never mentioned God or Jesus. When the President sent missles into Africa to protect Catholic martyrs, the Pope is meeting former Obama people on the mid terms

Again I assume you are woke with the untrue response. Catholics ran an Underground Railroad to get Jews out through Italy. More Catholics may have been killed in concentration camps than Jews. when the head of Auswitz was facing death he requested a priest but they has to get one from another country as the Germans killed all the priests in Poland. That is some wine and dinning. Does it make you feel important making things up?

The Pope LIED to Catholics about the Latin Mass. The Pope stated the majority of Bishop were against the Latin Mass. Leaked documents showed exactly the opposite, the majority were in favor of it. https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/03/vatican-downplays-leaked-documents-on-latin-mass/

From the Chicago Sun Times: The Allegations: Survivor-advocacy groups like SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) released internal Vatican documents and recordings alleging that before his papacy, as Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Pope Leo XIV mishandled, suppressed, or failed to thoroughly investigate local child abuse claims https://snapnetwork.org/2025/12/08/pope-leo-helped-shield-clergy-accused-of-abuse-in-peru-abuse-survivors-allege/

Mark Brezinski MD,PhD,CPT sure, you are right. CatGPT gives a lot of rubbish replies, but here you are Human to choose. Often it takes up to 5 times with a very detailed description just to get something close, but sometimes it works

George Shmelin So I am a technology person. Built technology you would know most of my adult life, technology committees from the NIH, DOe< DOD, etc. I was actually asked by the Chinese government to build gyroscopes for their fighter planes which I didn’t (though a saved the email and PDF). I see the misuse of MRIs/CTs leading to bad patient outcomes all the time. What smart phones have done to society. Technology is only a tool which needs to be used with caution. But this has been said by many people, including including Drucker and Buffett.

The concern is Pope Francis and his students are the Manchurian Popes brought in by those with a political agenda. The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was historic and without a reasonable explanation. While Popes prior like John Paul II work with presidents in both parties, Pope Francis had a pure democrat agenda, Then there is the Peru child scandal and the Pope outright lying to Catholics about bishop’s opinion on theLatin mass. The current Pope was accelerated to high cardinal rapidly by Pope Francis.

no one is listening. He better be careful, AI will have him partying with the Kardashians

I share a complete analysis on the content of the encyclical. 11 minutes reading for a complete overview of what it says. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/magnifica-humanitas-what-pope-leo-xivs-encyclical-really-le-pellec-jr0fe