Pope Francis argues AI cannot truly understand human concepts, sparking debate among researchers over embodied AI and machine comprehension

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Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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f.₳RT@cNFTfART

@Pontifex @NebsGoodTakes true

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George Powell@TheGeorgePowell

The tables have turned. It's the atheists claiming there's ghosts in the machine.

What a timeline.

Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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Amanda🦋@Hudconistani

@Pontifex You tell them Pope!

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few_understand_this@understand6171

@Pontifex IBM said this in 1979

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MindBranches@MindBranches

@Pontifex Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

summary in 4k

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⚘️Carina@Carina_Amyth

@Pontifex The people who are pushing for AI do not care about people. They are pushing AI because they know it's ultimately going to be for the government surveillance of their citizens, & not for information, fun, or whatever else they've lied about to convince people to embrace it.

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Daniel@growing_daniel

@Pontifex @JuniperFolly Anthropic PMs making notes and then conferring quietly together. Thank you for your feedback, we can ship all of this by the end of Q4

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Justin@reldrago

@Pontifex WAGE THAT HOLY WAR ON AI GOAT

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Mick@MickM90

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

This feels like the 2026 version of the old ‘LLMs are just stochastic parrots’ take

Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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THE-VIRTUOSO@MusindoKudzayi

@Pontifex Never thought our very own John Connor will be a guy from Chigago who happens to be our pope too

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@ratlimit@ratlimit

@Pontifex Holy Father I use ChatGPT to help me pray

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thebes@voooooogel

Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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Yann LeCun@ylecun

@Pontifex Indeed, AI today does not do or possess any of those things. But at some point in the future they will.

Except perhaps for the spiritual part. Many humans aren't spiritual either, yet have empathy and are highly moral.

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Max Manus@MaxManus73

Exactly right.

Regular people don't understand and my IT professional colleagues unfortunately use anthropomorphic terminology that confuses them even more.

Any piece of software, including LLM AI technology, does not UNDERSTAND a single word.

Humans use words to denote a concept, but to AI, words are just bytes in a database.

consider the equation: Y = mX +b

For any given X, we compute the Y.

LLM is just like this, except the number of variables is extremely large.

However, all it does is compute Y based on the input.

The equation doesn't understand what X actually is. It has no intelligence or conceptual ability.

All of this has been couched in anthropomorphic terminology either for evil purposes or simply to pump up the associated stocks.

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SistahAsali👠💄@SistahAsali

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

fully agree!

Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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Justine Moore@venturetwins

The Pope has clearly never been gently parented by Claude at 1am

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THE-VIRTUOSO@MusindoKudzayi

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