Tim Hwang
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high politics, secret exploration, distant warfare
Pope Leo XIV is set to release his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25. Tim Hwang of the Institute for Christian Machine Intelligence joins to share how the tech community has responded to the announcement of the encyclical.
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2 popes named Leo, 135 years apart. 2 technological revolutions reshaping the household, work, & what it means to be human. Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum addressed the industrial revolution pulling production out of the home. Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, next week, addresses AI.
Pope Leo XIV is creating a commission on artificial intelligence, a new Vatican body aimed at coordinating the Catholic Church’s response to AI. politico.eu/article/pope-l…
I use AI for a lot of things, but this is a pretty bonkers anecdote from Nat Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub. theatlantic.com/technology/202…
For Christians, the family and relational rootedness is a foundational prerequisite for moral development. Today, ICMI asks whether giving a frontier AI a parallel self-conception as a member of a particular family and worshipping community improves its moral reasoning. It does.
We have left-leaning and right-leaning AI labs. But who's building a southern-leaning lab? Call it country intelligence. Trained to focus on beers, trucks, getting your boots dirty. Dario invokes a country of geniuses in a data center. We want country geniuses in data centers.
