Natasha Tiku

I also appreciated the Substacks that were like, here's what the Pope got wrong about AI.

It just was probably not something the Pope's used to do.

Some of the more AI safety crowd on Substack.

They weren't happy that he seemed to frown on the idea of AI being potentially conscious.

Yes, and he had on, you know, spoke about, wrote about the concentration of power in the hands of these tech companies, the potential impact on workers, on the global population.

He talked a little bit also about the use of AI for defense and the dangers that were there.

I would say it was a...

yeah, pretty forceful statement about the need to elevate and care for and prioritize humans in the age of AI.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

I keep thinking back to this this piece that I had written when Mark Zuckerberg was first doing his like cross country tour and people thought he was going to run for president.

And I was like, no, he's already like he already rules a nation state that is much more powerful.

And I feel like you're right.

You're seeing that writ large, you know, with the with the heads of companies at all of these geopolitically significant events and also spiritually significant now.

Yeah.

You know what?

There was really good reporting in Politico about how it's actually been like a two year effort by tech companies, not just anthropic.

to lobby essentially the Vatican.

Um, I think knowing that potentially, um, I don't know that it was like directly for the encyclical, but knowing that, um, you know, the, the concentration of power, the wealth inequality, um, that at some point the

on this technology that they have so much money riding on.