As long as they ask crystal healers and clairvoyants too, why stop at the pope, and not go full crazy?
I bet a pendulum would give better results, because it's 50/50 and not 100% prejudiced towards bronze age arbitrary moral concepts.
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They should for him to deal with only 'fags' in Politics. Push his agenda however he wants, but it's gotta run through the fags he keeps talking shit about behind closed doors. Let's see how well his agendas will play out.
Pope Francis uses anti-gay f-slur while refusing to let gay men join the priesthood
For the second time in a month, Pope Francis used an Italian slur in association with his opposition to gay men in the priesthood.
Nothing more legit than someone who complains about slurs while using slurs. \s
Well, as a gay man myself, I suppose I didn’t consider it’s not obvious that the person commenting this (me) was gay themselves. So in my own defense I was thinking it internally that he should talk to ‘us fags’.
While I am cerain there are smart Catholics, even some working on AI development, agents of the Church are a different story, and I'd expect them to push policy that serves the Church institution, and disregards the interests of the laity it is supposed to serve.
So I'd see this as just a power play, and ultimately the Holy See would endorse any AI of any company that offers access to it to the Church, even if it hasn't been tested to be safe for direct access to the world.
But I can be cynical of for-profit institutions.
Under-shaved, brown-robed and jovial, Benanti is adept at explaining how technology can change the world, “with humans ceding the power of choice to an algorithm that knows us too well. Some people treat AIs like idols, like oracles, like demigods. The risk is that they delegate critical thinking and decisional power to these machines.”
AI is about choices. He points out: “Already a few tens of thousands of years ago, the club could have been a very useful tool or a weapon to destroy others …”
The Italians, not pioneers in the technology, warn that AI prefigures a world in which progress does not optimise human capabilities, but replaces them.
While I certainly do not side with the Catholic Church and their moralistic dogma, it is valuable to pay attention to a group that has made it their mission to think about how humanity is affected by various things. Never mind that they have their own bias in how humanity should be conducting itself. If instead, you treat them as a think tank with a relatively narrow focus, then we can make use of their work in this area.
I'm relieved to see at least one world leader though listening to an expert on technology. The US Congress had a department just for interpreting and researching various high technology concepts, but in their infinite wisdom they decided they knew better and disbanded the department.
One may disagree with the Catholic churches interpretation of their explanations of how AI technology can affect humans, but we would be fools to completely disregard their reports and findings.