Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang

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AI safety warnings are not “fake news”, Pope Leo XIV said on Monday. He told reporters the world should heed the concerns of AI experts. He spoke on his flight back to Rome after a four-day trip to France. He said he was not in “panic mode”, and that he sleeps at night.

“I do think that the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously. I don’t think that that is fake news, as some have said, to try and cause whether financial or some other kind of benefit,” Leo said.

Last week, Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that fears of AI were a “hoax”, Joshua McElwee reported for Reuters. Trump has also attacked AI safety warnings in a string of Truth Social posts.

A White House official told Axioswhat Trump meant by the hoax. Democrats, the official...

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