Pope's New Encyclical Adds Nuance to Binary AI Debate

.@Willob on @Pontifex's "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, from NEWER THINGS: "One thing I’m very happy about is the depth that this is bringing to the AI debate. "In my opinion, the AI debate here in San Francisco has been reasonably flat so far. It’s been AI Doomer versus AI Optimist. Acceleration versus Risk. Go slower versus Go faster. "Everyone weighing in on it has skin in the game. They run a lab, they invest in a lab, they’re trying to win an election, they’re trying to stop a data center in a district. "The Pope doesn’t. He is very explicit in advocating that he’s really grounded in the common good here. "I think it’s a great gift to humanity that we have this institution with a 2,000-year-plus track record of weighing in on topics relating to the human condition, that really doesn’t have any skin in the game, that can guide us at this moment in time. "Obviously, there have been many callbacks to Rerum Novarum, but in that instance, Pope Leo walked into a similarly flat debate: capital versus labor, Marxism versus unconstrained capitalism. He refused the binary and introduced a nuance that neither side was offering. "My hope is that Magnifica Humanitas does the same for AI."