Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Ars Technica
Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo confirms Ars Technica must "disarm" AI
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With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical —his first—called “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”).
Key facts
- With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical —his first—called “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”)
- When releasing Magnifica Humanitas today, Pope Leo thanked Olah for attending and added that they would keep in touch
- The 40,000-word encyclical contains uncompromising critiques of AI-powered autonomous weapons, neo-colonial attitudes towards data collection, and the hoarding of “new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure, and data
- In sounding this call to both disarm and to build, Leo turns to “twentieth-century Catholic author” JRR Tolkien
Summary
“The word is strong,” Leo admits, but he chose the language of “disarmament” deliberately “because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.” AI today must be “freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.” The 40,000-word encyclical contains uncompromising critiques of AI-powered autonomous weapons, neo-colonial attitudes towards data collection, and the hoarding of “new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure, and data.” But the letter goes far beyond critique, updating Catholic social teaching in a way that calls on everyone to “build” often collected under the pretext of aid, research or innovation—possess a structural leverage over the future, for they can shape needs and markets.