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Pope Leo XIV just dropped a massive 42,300-word encyclical on AI

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Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff’s AI encyclical on May 25

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The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

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Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness

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26 May
Anthropic’s Chris Olah at the Vatican: “We keep finding things that are mysterious”evidence of AI introspection and large scale labor replacement

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Pope decries rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation

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Pope decries rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation

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Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’

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