I wonder if the encyclical will incorporate material or take guidance from “Antiqua et nova”[1], the 2025 doctrinal note of the Catholic Church co-issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture. The Note addresses “the anthropological and ethical challenges raised by AI—issues that are particularly significant, as one of the goals of this technology is to imitate the human intelligence that designed it.” I sincerely hope it builds on it.

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

Title is: Pope's first encyclical on preserving the human person in AI age coming May 25

This reminds me of the second half of the Hyperion cantos by Dan Simmons

Fairly disappointed that it’s not Amodei/Amor Dei there. A terrible blow for nominative determinism.

Hmm, there’s probably a good reason for this, but it feels weird to involve people who are openly atheist and, moreover, against religion in an event like this.

I hope it's some sort of covert invitation to convert/repent. The doors are always open for those who want to cross it :).

This article needs to be retitled, as it stands it's misleading.

Papal Encyclicals[0] are solely authored by the Pope, even if there has been secular scholarship involved in the writing. It is never "presented" by anyone else, and to frame it as presented primarily by Christopher Olah "alongside" the pope is to betray an ignorance of what's officially going on.

Not sure how we arrived at the present title, "Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV", but it makes as much sense as "Iceberg nearly completes mainden voyage across Atlantic, with famous ship as passenger."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclical#Catholic_usage

Another weird thing is this religious group trying to exert control over the AI companies:

https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/Techisturningincreasinglytore...

Why are the AI companies meeting with them at all? Just seems uncomfortable and suspicious.