What Happens When You Ask AI About God?

So he takes this argument all the way to warfare.

He calls it one of the most tragic issues.

And his worry is that technology is cutting us loose from the ethics and responsibility to make decisions, that it's making it easier or making it impersonal for us to do things that may cause people to die, and that this is something that we should worry about.

who makes a decision, you know, if AI is making a decision versus humans having to make this decision.

And he writes that the peace is a test of the moral maturity of peoples.

Now, we know that this is a conflict right now.

When you read this or you hear this, does this make you worry about how, you know, our government, for example, has used AI in its planning for warfare with Iran? Does it make you worry about these things?

The fact that we're doing it makes me worry.

The Pope talking about it doesn't make me worry.

I think it's important that we all take up these questions.

And I would say that that's part of the twofold lens that Pope Leo is bringing to this, that AI is impacting decision-making and then accountability for decision-making.

And the second thing that it's impacting is an imagination, a human vision of what could be possible.

If we have a huge problem or a huge challenge like war making, then what are the possibilities towards getting towards peace? And how do we sort of imagine that being where we want to go? And so those two aspects, decision making with a sort of subset of accountability for decision making and then a moral imagination that allows you to get to a place of peace are both related to this concept.

idea of just war and just war theory.

And I would specify that I anticipate some more concrete teaching around just war and just war theory to come out of the Vatican in the next couple of years that will elaborate on these questions even further.

It's interesting.

Imagination was one of the other things that was flagged many, many different times.

And I think we all know now that these models work by predicting the next word.

So they're not thinking per se.

So this isn't a real imagination.

This is a thing that is trying to predict the next thing.

And that there's a fear that this may blunt the imagination that we have as humans.

especially if we sort of hand over that kind of creative part of a process to a machine.

And I would also say, I want to say that Pope Leo in this encyclical isn't saying that AI is all bad.

He's not condemning AI, nor is he saying that it's all good and going to save humanity.