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2026-10-02 18:14 UTC

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/

Replies (17)

  • @trzyglow@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 18:17

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social amen

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  • @pc_magas@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 18:24

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social Makes sense. AI is bust a matrix performing calculation or a vector space. How can this have a soul tbw???

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 18:26

    Imagine you have to actually lobby Church to prove that your little shity black box built with stolen data from book authors, web, forums. wiki, code repos, artists as a super intelligence with soul. Lmao. Anthropic and all tech bros are super evil. I wonder what's their end goal as they are going so crazy with their AI psychosis idea 🤔

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  • @tinkel@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 19:26

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social It's easier to convince me that AI is conscious than that human has a soul in the way Catholics or religious people define it. Machine consciousness similar to human is theoretically possible, the spiritual essence that animates the human person is just magical thinking.

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  • @BLTpizza@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 19:41

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social The tech fascists won't stop this bullshit that their new tools have agency. I'm seeing this as a mass societal psychosis perpetuated by criminal sociopathic lunatics.

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  • @lisp1984@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 20:17

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social the vatican has its own militarty....down with the catholic church.

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  • @markhahn@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 20:54

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social Isn't he supposed to put a (tm) after that "Spark of Humanity" woo? It's too bad he conflates ideological, social, and technical concerns. I remain skeptical about how much he understands either neuroscience or computer science / AI architecture.

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  • @Tiezep@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 22:09

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social my atheist ass joining the holy war on the side of da freakin Pope

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go on then, you Catholic's shits, carry on pretending you care about the hot topic of the moment, AI. Just to take the focus off the fact that your priests and your schools are full of jackals who abuse and sodomise children. Fuckin bloody hypocrites.

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social Thousands of years from now, there will be a fable told of a long ago people who designed a machine to impersonate a human being, and the first ones they decieved were themselves. And I'd think that even if I'd never read Frank Herbert or Carl Sagan.

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social A broken clock is right twice a day. Good boy, pope. Now try a stance on abortion that doesn’t make me want to remove your tax free status.

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social I don't believe in a literal soul, but I still find the proposal by Anthropic utterly revolting. Mostly because it cheapens and commodifies such a profound concept to the human experience and our history. To try and claim a product has the same innate value as an actual conscious being.

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social I've said this a couple of times, but even as a total agnostic, this Pope is growing on me..

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  • @nixCraft@mastodon.social The Pope is not the final arbiter of who or what has a soul.

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  • @mastor666@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 06:16

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social don't worry, it's coming soon enough https://artwork.40k.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Archmagos-Dominus-Vyrhale-Oranox.jpg

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  • @urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 09:30

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social the teleology of AI seems straightforwardly to be to use non-renewable resources faster. More of everything, all the time, on a finite world. Which seems intrinsically stupid

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