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Some marginalia from my full reading of the Pope's Encyclical on AI this morning: - AI does not love - AI does not intrinsically value truth or justice - AI does not experience hunger - AI does not experience communion with the natural world or any sort of higher power

4/10/26, 6:13 pm28 reposts73 likes

no sloncho

@lobate.bsky.social

do androids dream of electric cheese

blair

@blairaf.com

I find these kinds of ontological critiques grounded in human relationality much more compelling than ontological critiques that are purely cognitive (AI doesn't actually think/understand/isn't actually intelligent, etc)

blair

@blairaf.com

btw the underlying void beneath all of these points is that AI doesn't have a soul and can't be given a soul, AI is spirit without soul which is why AI systems are ungrounded and unaccountable without human intervention to steer them

benway14.bsky.social

@benway14.bsky.social

They are just following a series of orders and not thinking or understanding anything. They are the result of years and billions spent programming machines to seem human by copying actual human speech from multiple sources to hoodwink investors and customers. They are legion, for they are many.

kat, but spooky 🎃

@kataclyst.bsky.social

The thing I keep screaming at CBC radio is “ai doesn’t have intentionality!”

TuxedoAlbedo

@jerryork.bsky.social

AI is not even AI. It is just LLMs. They can't think. They just match patterns. When you ask them why they did what they did, they don't know.