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I love this photo—me, aged 4. At Monash University during the tea break (hence no bails). My dad was playing & took & developed the photo.

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Pope Leo XIV isn’t just talking to Silicon Valley and Washington in his AI encyclical. He’s talking to us. He wants us on our phones less, seeking face-to-face encounters with our families, our children, and our friends. This document is for everyone.

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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

30 days. For RAPING A CHILD. Remember this when you vote, Texas.

Americans see how timidly and how little Republicans in Congress push back against Trump’s manias and corruption. We will remember. wsj.com/opinion/trump-…

Serious question: Where can we obtain print copies?

The Pope has made preserving humanity a cultural, social, and moral concern, not just a tech one. Until now, it's basically been different AI researchers arguing with one another about "alignment" from their extremely technical perspectives. The Pope is urging the rest of us to weigh in. open.substack.com/pub/charlottea…

“@SenAdamSchiff called the fund ‘the most brazen act of self-dealing corruption we’ve ever seen… We need to shut it down before he uses it to pay cop beaters, cronies, other criminals.’” Yet @SenatorHagerty @MarshaBlackburn both support Trump’s heist. semafor.com/article/05/26/…

I told @AliVitali that today was the realization of Peter Thiel’s worst fear — that the “woke American pope,” in his words, would take on Silicon Valley and challenge it to build an artificial intelligence in the service of humanity. Here’s the problem for Thiel. Leo deals in a currency he doesn't understand. There's no ballot that removes him, no impeachment, no indictment, no deportation order, no tariff that touches him. His authority comes from somewhere Thiel has no instrument to reach.

This is what parasites like Trump wait for.

Reflection by Pope Leo XIV "The Church wishes, with humility and frankness, to be part of conversations on artificial intelligence. We do not possess technical answers, nor do we seek to displace those with expertise. But we bring a wisdom concerning the human that our present time desperately needs: every person is unique and irreplaceable, a free and intelligent subject with a conscience, capable of seeking God, serving one another, and caring for our common home." (Presentation of encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, May 25, 2026)

Check out Fox News popesplaining to the Pope! @Pontifex 's remit is whatever he thinks impacts mankind for good or ill. His purpose is to help create a better world—and that means commenting on absolutely anything he thinks promotes—or interferes with—that. #PopeLeoXIV

In order to protect the human person in the age of #ArtificialIntelligence, we must once again reflect on the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, solidarity and social justice. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

In the digital age, a just social order guarantees everyone equal access to opportunities, protects the youngest and weakest members of society, combats hate and misinformation and subjects the use of data and technology to public oversight, so that the guiding principle is not solely profit but the dignity of every person and the common good of all people.

When it comes to decisions regarding economic flows and digital platforms, as well as the governance of data and algorithms, we cannot allow a handful of actors to dictate these processes on their own. Instead, we must build forms of cooperation that respect the various levels of the global community and make them jointly responsible for the common good.

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

50% of investors now say the dollar is overvalued, per Bank of America.

The Pope's humanist manifesto does something really interesting; not only does he call for new regulations and guardrails, but he also calls out what he describes as the "anti-human vision" pervasive in the tech world. Human limitations, he argues, are not bugs in our code to be fixed or optimized. They're at the core of love, wonder, community, the shared vulnerability of being human. charlottealter.substack.com/p/the-pope-is-…

"True fulfilment is not achieved by eliminating weakness" - Magnifica humanitas, 12