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Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclicalthelettersfromleo.com

Chris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground.

4 points•hliyan•about 9 hours ago•1 comment•
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JSR_FDEDabout 9 hours ago
“… his team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers to take the possibility of machine consciousness seriously”.

Boy wouldn’t that be convenient for the big AI players if they could get LLMs classified as conscious instead of pile of math?

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