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Daniel Lowd

377 trust researcher @lowd.cc · 4,426 followers
CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
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I’m reading the Pope’s 83-page manifesto on AI. Notes/quotes 🧵 “Technology should not be considered, in itself, as a force antagonistic to humanity. On the contrary, it has formed part of our history since the beginning as ‘a profoundly human reality, linked to the autonomy & …

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Stop replacing HUMANS with AI!! For example, if you can't code and you're tempted to ask AI, you could instead ask a HUMAN software engineer for help. And then that HUMAN software engineer will ask AI to write the code. See how much better that is? Yay for HUMANS!

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