Pope Leo XIV warns that centralizing AI moral alignment within a few labs risks establishing a monopoly on ethics

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“A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.” Banger. 🔥

PWPirate Wires@PirateWires

We read the pope’s entire 74-page encyclical on artificial intelligence. Contained within the 40,000-word manifesto was a theologically sophisticated and somewhat practical idea for how to approach AI: “Alignment,” Leo XIV writes, can be another form of monopolistic control: “A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.” As @dodgeblake explains, the pope may have accidentally made the libertarian case for AI development. Based on a close reading of scripture, he believes the way forward is not regulation, nor “alignment,” but distributing responsibility beyond the labs of SF. Full story 👇