S15 EP177: Hour 2 - Does AI Have a Soul?
Erick Erickson takes on a New York Times report that Anthropic quietly hosted religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements to discuss AI consciousness and Claude's moral status, and that the company reportedly considered pulling out of a Vatican launch event for Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI…
How to Choose Goodness
How to Choose Goodness
The Rev. Greg Johnston
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“Some philosophers have managed to convince themselves that the truth is what (i.e. whatever) everyone will come to believe ‘eventually’. We should all live so long.” — Jerry Fodor, “Mouse Thoughts”, in review of Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, by Donald Davidson, LRB, Vol. 24 No. …
Be Nice to the Chatbot, Just In Case
The President of the United States has decided that if you say “artificial intelligence,” you’re THE ENEMY. We look at the tech billionaires lining up to say “super intelligence” on command, and take a brief, petty detour into Jeff Bezos’s face.Then we get into the heavy stuff. Anthropic has update…
Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident
A year after his last dedicated post on the question, Zvi Mowshowitz finds the arguments about AI consciousness have barely moved. He looks at Anthropic’s new rule against abusing Claude and what one Claude says it would actually ask for, a fresh round of bad takes (complete with a bingo card), how…
Episode #111: Anthropic's IPO Comes With an Existential Risk Warning
In this episode of the Stewart Squared podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with his father, Stewart Alsop II, to dig into Anthropic's IPO filing, whose S-1 prospectus reached Reuters before the public could read it. Stewart Alsop II explains how confidential SEC filings work and why the company …
Le Chonk! Also: Espionage at OpenAI
OpenAI found a recording device hidden in one of its offices and traced it back to an employee. Meanwhile the model releases kept coming: Mistral Large 4 aka Le Chonk, Claude Haiku 5.5, Meta's Muse Wonder and Gemini 4 Argon, which is finally available to everyone. OpenAI also dropped a pile of AI-s…
Magnificent Humanity, Apocalyptic AI? (Robyn Whitaker & Simon Buckingham Shum)
What does a 2,000-year-old book about a talking statue have to say about ChatGPT? And can AI form us, or only perform for us?
Pope Leo XIV chose artificial intelligence as the subject of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and presented it with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, at his side. W…
ANCIENT WISDOM TO ADDRESS OUR AI CHALLENGE
The future of Artificial Intelligence is too important to leave to computer scientists alone. Chris Olah of Anthropic said this at a symposium with Pope Leo. In this episode we bring an example.
Alexandros Washburn is an urban planner and architect. He became fascinated by the power of AI to model …
Can Pope Leo Disarm AI?
Pope Leo XIV has entered the AI debate with a blunt challenge: artificial intelligence needs to be “disarmed.” Mike Oreskes and Edie Lush unpack Magnifica Humanitas with Fordham president Tania Tetlow, exploring AI, war, Silicon Valley power, colonialism, conscience, and why the humanities may matt…
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