Pope Leo has entered the artificial intelligence debate with his encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas.” He underscored the need for spiritual guidance by inviting Christopher Olah, co-founder of the AI giant Anthropic, to comment.
“I lead a research team that studies the internal structure of these [AI] models,” Olah said. “What is actually happening inside them? And I will be honest, we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease. I don’t know what that means, but I think it warrants ongoing discernment.”
Technology does not arrive morally neutral once human beings begin using it. It magnifies the character of those who
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