RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117372672187422692
The look on 20-year-old-me's face when he finds out that 50-year-old-me is joining the Butlerian Jihad on the side of the Catholic Pope.
Once again Pope Leo XIV has rejected idea of Anthropic that Claude has a soul. He went one step ahead and called to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
For those who don't know Anthropic did privately lobby Vatican advisers to take the idea of AI consciousness (Soul) seriously, but Pope Leo XIV completely rejected the idea, firmly stating that AI does not possess a soul, feelings, or a moral conscience https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/02/anthropic-lobbied-pope-to-argue-ai-conscious-being/
@mhoye when you're filthy rich and the Catholic church doesn't side with you it means you fucked up spectacularly