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Anthropic cofounder hallucinates ghost in the machine after hearing the Pope speak about AI

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OPINION In his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV warns against equating machine "intelligence" with human intelligence.

"We must avoid the misconception of equating this type of 'intelligence' with that of human beings," he declared. "These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence."

Invited to speak at the event, Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic and the company's interpretability research lead, proceeded to push back on that idea amid his appreciation of the occasion.

AI systems, he said, "are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised. They are made from us, from our words – and, as the Holy Father observes, they remain in important ways mysterious even to those of us who train them."

It's as if naming the company Anthropic granted a license to anthropomorphize AI models.

The notion that there's some AI mystery in the spiritual sense is just hot garbage

Literally speaking, there's...

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