{"id":145436,"date":"2026-05-27T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145436"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:15:32","slug":"nyt-at-the-epicenter-of-a-i-pope-leos-warnings-are-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145436","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) At the Epicenter of A.I., Pope Leo\u2019s Warnings Are Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many of the founders and important researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI joined the earliest gatherings at A.G.I. House. Mr. [Jeremy] Nixon is now founder and chief executive of a start-up called the Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute, which is\u00a0trying to automate the creation of A.I<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Nixon said he has met a generation of scientists who shunned traditional religion in favor of technology. After growing up with books like \u201cThe God Delusion\u201d \u2014 in which the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins painted God as a false belief contradicted by empirical evidence \u2014 he and his peers saw A.I. as an alternative that was more real and far more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A.I. has started to crack math problems<\/a> that humans struggled with for decades<\/a>, he said, and it will soon cure diseases in the same way. \u201cPractically speaking, it will achieve the outcomes that many religions claim their deities would be able to achieve,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an increasingly common belief among researchers in Silicon Valley. They insist they are on their way to building a more powerful species \u2014 or even a new God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>

At the Epicenter of A.I., Pope Leo\u2019s Warnings Are Dismissed
Pope Leo XIV\u2019s spiritual message on artificial intelligence arrived as Silicon Valley\u2019s A.I. enthusiasts pursue their own spirituality through technology.https:\/\/t.co\/FLBlOaknrL<\/a><\/p>— Emily Turrettini (@textually) May 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>