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25.05.26 - 21:42
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Pope Sounds Alarm On AI "Slavery" While Church Aligns With Lefty Anthropic (ZeroHedge)
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Pope Sounds Alarm On AI "Slavery" While Church Aligns With Lefty Anthropic
Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, entitled Magnifica Humanitas (The Magnificence of the Human Person).
The roughly 42,300-word declaration, issued as a papal encyclical, warned, "The fight against new forms of slavery is a decisive test for the ethical discernment of AI and digital transformation."
"If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity," the pontiff explained in the encyclical, while urging governments to regulate the private companies driving AI advances and warning that the pursuit of profit cannot justify mass job losses.
The pontiff called for retraining and protections for working-class folks threatened by AI-related job loss, stronger education to help students understand AI risks, and safeguards against violent, sexualized, or fake AI-generate...
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25.05.26 - 19:48
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The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV′s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first | Editorial (The Guardian)
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In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debateWhen the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference to a 19th-century predecessor who used the papacy to address the great social question of his time. In the 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), Pope Leo XIII analysed the social forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution, and outlined principles for a just settlement between the forces of capital and labour. Leo XIV hopes to do something similar in relation to the accelerating digital upheaval of our own age.As anxiety grows over big tech's impact on how we work and live, such ambition should be applauded. The early fruits of the pope's work were presented in the Vatican on Monday after the publication of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity). In 42,000 or so words the document itemises the daunting challenges posed by dev...
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25.05.26 - 16:30
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ByteDance AI films shake up Cannes as TikTok owner challenges Hollywood norms, budgets (SCMP)
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Films generated by ByteDance's AI technology made headlines at this year's Cannes Film Festival, as the TikTok owner accelerates efforts to commercialise its flagship Seedance 2.0 model.
Two short films, The Golden Tomb Seeker and Series Tower, created by Chinese platform Chushou AI using Seedance 2.0, were among 21 works selected from more than 1,000 submissions spanning 120 countries at Marché du Film, the business hub of the festival.
But what drew most industry attention was Hell Grind, a......
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