Pope Leo XIV: “Artificial Intelligence needs to be disarmed.”



WHISTLEBLOWER: TECH RACE TO CREATE MACHINE GOD

Its scientists and researchers were some of the brightest minds in the industry. But, Hao says, their belief in AGI was something more akin to a religious fervour. She calls it “the ideological pursuit of the machine god”.
Several former OpenAI employees told Hao about a retreat in the hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains where senior scientists, dressed in bathrobes, sat around a firepit at a sprawling lodge and watched as Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s brilliant and eccentric chief scientist, burnt an effigy “representing AGI”. Friends who joined the company described to her how it was only after leaving that they “came back down to earth”.

POPE AI WARNING
‘TOWER OF BABEL’

The head of the Catholic Church is adding his moral suasion to a growing backlash against the impact of artificial intelligence