Much of Leo's encyclical is a collection of banalities that ChatGPT could have done a better job with. But more seriously, he says (or implies) a series of ignorant and wrong-headed things about AI, like: – AI will concentrate power, when in fact it will spread it more widely
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AI will reveal who has replicable expertise
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AI won’t kill expertise. It’ll expose who actually had a process worth copying.
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What to Keep Human and What to Hand Over to AI
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I wrote a new post on what we need to keep human and what to hand over to AI, with forays into experiments in education, consulting, and the the latest controversy over literary prizes.
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Demis Hassabis on Singularity, AGI Timelines, and Human Meaning
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 26 mai 2026
I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI:
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0:45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O
1:46 Have AGI timelines shifted?
3:30… pic.twitter.com/Vicpn6GMt9Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI: 0:00 Intro
0:45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O
1:46 Have AGI timelines shifted?
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AI as a Human Enabler in Future Competition
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The new competition isn’t Humans vs AI. It’s Humans with AI vs everyone else.
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Ensuring AI Gains Are Shared Globally Equitably
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"How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this." Powerful remarks by @ch402 at the Vatican. A crucial reminder that AI labs cannot operate in a vacuum, we urgently need moral imagination and outside voices to protect the global poor.
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Simonw studies Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI
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When I woke up this morning, I didn't think I would spend a good part of the day familiarizing myself with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI.
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Google Omni’s Power: Reality Becoming a Shared Hallucination?
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Google Omni might be way too powerful.
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 25 mai 2026
at this rate, reality is soon going to feel like one giant shared hallucination 👀pic.twitter.com/8uXJCrCS4OGoogle Omni might be way too powerful. at this rate, reality is soon going to feel like one giant shared hallucination
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Closed AI institutions risk public loss of operational freedom
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OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE – PLEASE READ If intelligence becomes something people can only rent from a few closed institutions, the public does not just lose software freedom. It loses operational freedom. AI is a civilizational infrastructure for work, education, science, software,
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Gary Marcus doubts 50% white collar job loss in two years
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not saying that nobody will lose their job (and in many cases AI is just a fig leaf). but i doubt eg we will lose 50% white collar jobs in two years.