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So, this feels up the motte's alley- https://www.romecall.org/the-call/
I apologize for the Vatican's web design. TLDR important figures from the major Abrahamaic religions have signed a call for AI ethics which has also been signed onto by representatives from, among others, IBM, Microsoft, and the Italian government.
It's not 100% clear to me what any of this means, per se-
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Are more like typical Francis-era Vatican boilerplate than anything concrete. But as a milestone it's probably the first time anyone even attempted to define AI ethics, isn't it? Anyways, I'd be interested in hearing from Motteizans who know a lot more about AI than I do(which, to be clear, is that it's hilarious to feed ChatbotGPT black nationalist conspiracy theories) about what this probably means.
This is weaksauce. Where's my Orange Catholic bible? Zensunni Catholics and Budislamists would have the decency of spelling out the conclusions from such principles and command a holy djihad on anyone who makes black box AI (or AI at all really).
Jesus, at least go for the moderate position and hang anyone who publishes models that aren't open source including weights and training datasets! They are nakedly trying to enslave you through machines, after all.
I think there would actually be a definite social improvement if most religions could agree that none of their participants ought to be judged by an unexplainable automated system and this proclamation clearly shows that they believe in such a principle, just not strongly enough to actually matter in the slightest.
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That creates a loophole of Tolkienesque proportions. All the AIs are women.
But was it eowyn or merry that kills the witch king? Merry using the special dagger created by remnants of the northern kingdom was important.
Merry isn't a man either though. It's less nonsense than the old Macbeth where "of woman born" doesn't apply to C-section babies.
A man did the Caesarean on Macduff, so it's yet another example of a man getting the credit for a woman's work.
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