Are you reading the Pope's encyclical? I'm about halfway through. It's quite the read. Goes into areas of the debate that few others are even thinking about, such as the question of personhood if someone substantially cedes their thinking to AI and algorithmic control. He's also taking cybernetic totalism head on (although the Magnifica refers to it as 'the technocratic paradigm'). And so many people in the AI debate still think this is about technology...
I've seen this argument and I can see why: plenty of 'It's not X, it's Y' constructions in particular. And I am very uneasy about how Anthropic has manoeuvred the Vatican into endorsing them (not cool). But, having read 75% of the encyclical now, I'm fairly confident in saying it's substantially human work. There is a careful, exact, and highly principled human scholar behind it. None of the vague BS that AI writing revels in.
However, it is true that papal encyclicals tend to be created with the help of a large team, so (at worst) it's possible that one of the Pope's underlings might have used a bit of AI here and there. I'd prefer a guarantee of zero AI of course, but given the enormous cultural value of the document, in this instance I'm willing to overlook a bit of AI contamination...
Of course I might end up eating my words if someone can prove it's all AI-generated :P But I suspect and hope not.
Are you reading the Pope's encyclical? I'm about halfway through. It's quite the read. Goes into areas of the debate that few others are even thinking about, such as the question of personhood if someone substantially cedes their thinking to AI and algorithmic control. He's also taking cybernetic totalism head on (although the Magnifica refers to it as 'the technocratic paradigm'). And so many people in the AI debate still think this is about technology...
And supposedly he’s subtweeting Peter Thiel to boot ✊
I did just read a piece saying he’d used Claude to write it 😂
I've seen this argument and I can see why: plenty of 'It's not X, it's Y' constructions in particular. And I am very uneasy about how Anthropic has manoeuvred the Vatican into endorsing them (not cool). But, having read 75% of the encyclical now, I'm fairly confident in saying it's substantially human work. There is a careful, exact, and highly principled human scholar behind it. None of the vague BS that AI writing revels in.
However, it is true that papal encyclicals tend to be created with the help of a large team, so (at worst) it's possible that one of the Pope's underlings might have used a bit of AI here and there. I'd prefer a guarantee of zero AI of course, but given the enormous cultural value of the document, in this instance I'm willing to overlook a bit of AI contamination...
Of course I might end up eating my words if someone can prove it's all AI-generated :P But I suspect and hope not.