Everybody is pulling gotchas instead of noticing that the AI lobby and the FREAKING CATHOLIC POPE both think the way to win is to speak DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE and not just in theory but grounded HISTORICAL REALITY www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
- 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.