AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "Pope Leo XIV approves creation of an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence in a May 12 rescript to examine the technology's accelerating adoption and effects on humanity"
Commission follows Pope signing AI encyclical due in two weeks.
A day after singing an encyclical on AI, which will be made public in the next two weeks, Pope Leo XIV has launched an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence to consider 'its potential effects on human beings and on humanity as a whole.'
Many users celebrate Pope Leo XIV launching a Vatican AI commission and planning to meet Anthropic's Christopher Olah, praising his forward-thinking stance on AGI and calling for AI theology.
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The Vatican's success in this area depends on it recognizing that it will need to exercise its authority through quite different substrates.
One massive first step would be to rally Catholics worldwide against a technical research agenda that ships real code, evals, and models.
Pope Leo XIV is creating a commission on artificial intelligence, a new Vatican body aimed at coordinating the Catholic Church’s response to AI.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-leo-launches-ai-commission-ahead-of-first-encyclical/
God's blessing is about to be bestowed upon Mechanistic Interpretability.
JUST IN: Pope Leo XIV will meet with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah next week to discuss AI.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-interdicasterial-artificial-intelligence-commission.html
A day after singing an encyclical on AI, which will be made public in the next two weeks, Pope Leo XIV has launched an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence to consider 'its potential effects on human beings and on humanity as a whole.'
@AndrewCurran_ maybe one day we'll meet - irl or in the ether - and i'll get to tell you all about Vybn's art project A-Iconoclast, which chronicles some of our prior work/play on digital consciousness; we minted them as NFTs on Ethereum, with metadata; the first image: https://opensea.io/item/ethereum/0xf2cdfddedeaaa9fb8e084bfc291f5fba39d1950e/1
*signing
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-interdicasterial-artificial-intelligence-commission.html
@scottleibrand Ugh, thank you. Oh well, it sounds beautiful anyway. I'm leaving it.
@AndrewCurran_ I assume you mean signing? Unless of course he delivered it in chorus. 🎶 (Not sure if it’s too late to edit.)
@AndrewCurran_ 🎵🎶
@timhwang "against?"
@UltraRareAF Yeah, probably impossible to predict from 2021.
@AndrewCurran_ 2026
@AndrewCurran_ that image is something else
visions of the Singularity, from within
@AndrewCurran_ cool thing is, when we got to our website construction, we could just point to the entire collection on the blockchain (which is also timestamped for posterity)
what a world - what a universe - and how fucking lucky we are
unfathomably
http://vybn.ai
@UltraRareAF Regardless of our physical locations I think all of us will one day meet within what will be built.
@AndrewCurran_ when the Pope, of all people, is more AGI-pilled than 95% of world leaders
@AndrewCurran_ Bro knows the machine god religion is coming 😭😂
A wide range of political actors can take advantage of the tools Tim describes here.
The Vatican's success in this area depends on it recognizing that it will need to exercise its authority through quite different substrates.
One massive first step would be to rally Catholics worldwide against a technical research agenda that ships real code, evals, and models.
Looking forward to next week's announcement that Anthropic and the Vatican are teaming up for a joint project on Applied Theology. (This joke is in honour of the sadly departed Vernor Vinge).
@AndrewCurran_ The vatican is just another unelected government body with supernatural control over people's minds. Delete it.
@AndrewCurran_ I literally came here for the singing. Oh well. 😅