AI and the pontificating Pontiff (2/2) - the reaction from Silicon Valley and MAGA Washington
Given that AI maven Anthropic has in recent months been condemned by the Trump 2.0 adminstration for insisting on its own ethical redlines for the use of its tech by the Department of War had to be adhered to, it’s perhaps appropriate that the firm attended yesterday’s Papal gathering in Vatican City for the publication of Pope Leo’s encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas’.
Now while many might raise a quizzical eyebrow at the presence of an AI firm firmly at the heart of the AI arms race that the Pope criticises so strongly, the firm’s co-founder Chris Olah took the occasion to settle comfortably into a seat on the moral high ground. AI is a mysterious beast, he told delegates at the gathering:
They are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised. They are made from us, from our words - and, as the Holy Father observes, they...
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