Casey Newton

There was some leaked updates

audio published this week from a meeting in which Zuckerberg basically said, look, we've got to train our systems to be good at coding and using computers.

And the way that we do that is by training them on your computers and your coding because we have a bunch of really smart people here.

And that was sort of his way to sort of explain away why they're surveilling their employees.

Totally.

All right.

Next update.

This one is a system Pope date because this one has to do with our new Pope.

Did he go on a date?

No, they're not allowed to do that.

But he is set to release his first encyclical on the topic of AI.

This coming Monday, Pope Leo XIV is expected to release his document sort of circulated among the church that is meant to guide the clergy.

And the surprising part of this is that Chris Ola, one of the co-founders of Anthropic, is going to be there at the Vatican to help him launch this thing.

Sure.

Yes, and I also am very excited about this because I think this does mean that Pope Leo XIV is the most likely pope to come on hard fork.

Absolutely.

And if you are in the Vatican listening to us right now, Pope Leo, please come drop your encyclical on our audience.

Your Holiness, we would simply love to create content with you.

All right, update four.

The literary world has been rocked by two new scandals related to AI use by writers.