Damn, imagine me agreeing wholeheartedly with the Church of all entities. Must be a first for evetything I s'pose.

Funny that the outlet breaking the story is PC Gamer of all things

What exactly would the role of an AI Pope even be exactly?

Even the Pope doesn't want his job taken by AI.

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

I guess the pope is a fan of Frank Herbert.

I happen to agree with the guy in this case, and I acknowledge that he's one of the more progressive pope's in a while, but lets not pretend he has any special knowledge about AI or really anything other than catholicism for that matter.

I particularly enjoyed when he called AI a threat to "human dignity, justice and labor." Heck, he even seems to like Pokemon.

Maybe I'm crazy, but wouldn't creating a clone of the supposedly Holiest man on the planet be considered sacrilege? Pretty sure creating an AI clone would be injurious to the Pope's reputation considering the AI could be manipulated by whoever is in control to get it to say whatever they want it to. That, and it'll just end up hallucinating like crazy just like every other single LLM chatbot in existence.

I mean church has done more damage... Shut up about "damage" control..

I agree with The Pope Formerly Known As Bob about AI.

...is not something I could have imagined myself saying a year ago 😄

Space Pope is better than AI Pope

Pedo priests and the popes who protect them do great damage to what humanity is about

finally someone who explained this whole mess in proper terms 😌

Why would the idea of an AI Pope even make it to the pope?

The pope is supposed to be God’s messenger on Earth, the idea that man creates its own messenger in place of the one God selected is obviously a huge sin of pride.

Now I don’t know that the pope is in fact chosen by God, I’m not even confident in the idea of God, I’m just saying the idea itself is an affront to Catholicism.

Edit: Space Pope might be skirting a technicality here, but I don’t think you can do AI pope even in space.

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

I guess the pope is a fan of Frank Herbert.

'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about'

The Catholic Church has already done that job

Rare Pope W

Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama has said that he might reincarnate as a computer someday once they're powerful enough.

Until we can build a PKE meter to actually measure whether souls are present in particular objects it's just duelling religion.

The idea that AI can interpret scripture is funny to me. It's almost like it's an admission there are no divine insights to be made. Though I suppose people could believe God talks to/works through machines.

Although the comment is true. The irony writes itself when you realize, so are religions.

"it's not personal enough. You can't feel the touch of god through a computer. A priest can't feel his congregation needs or the soft skin of a little boy through a keyboard. It's an affront to Jesus, pure heresy"

AI Pope just really giving it to humanity here and B'GAWD! It's The Real Pope with a folding chaaaaiiiirrrr! Oh! Oh My!

He says a lot of nice stuff and seems to be a little progressive, I hope he follows through.

Why is that news? What makes you think the pope would have an AI pope?

Dumb headline.

"Alright guys, it's hard to get on the news with everything going on in the world. What's gonna go viraaaaal??? I want it to be shared eeeeverywhere! We're gonna be the next scabbadiddle on tiki tak. Can we come up with something about AI? That's a word people are using a lot these days and brings attention! Ok, perfect let's circle back later this afternoon with your best catchy and attention grabbing headlines people!!"

• Vatican PR team consiglieri

Brains!!

He's got brains!!

GOOD!!

( in spite of his view that Jesus's "the 2nd law is love your neighbor as your brother" doesn't apply to the alphabet-soup LGBTAgnosticAnglicanWavyhairedNordicTechno-listeningWhatever people ( I'm just being silly, catty, & fey, since if the gays have the right to be that way, then us cishet guys do too!

so THeRe, eh?

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There is NOTHING in the new-testament which showed that benJoseph was committed to destroying people born wired into other genders, that I know-of,

so therefore the positions of the "churches" is standing entirely on stuff that isn't of their root-guru, benJoseph,

but is in the rest of the book, which their root-guru identified as "mostly rules made by men, not G-D", in their own new-testament.

Should their root-guru return, he's promised ( Matt 24, iirc ) to return outside their churches, & we'll see how conforming-with-the-churches-he-isn't-of that he's going to be, won't we?

Should their root-guru return, that is. )

Here's their root-guru quoting Isaiah, saying that people are taking as G-D's religion rules made by men, which is exactly the point I'm trying to get known..

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt+15%3A7-14&version=CJB

Pruning-out the non-universal stuff, there is actually little left, of any religion, & it's all principles, not culturally-formed-traditions..

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