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Search on YouTube and you will find dozens of non-AI videos of contemporary robots fighting each other, or even a recent event where one fought a human! The robot-on-robot ones remind me of "One Must Fall: 2097", while the others recall to mind the opening boxing match in "Cyberpunk 2077".
Except these are real, and not from a video game! We've arrived. To where exactly is up for some debate, yet here we are.
Pope Leo XIV chose that name because Pope Leo the XIII was "the industrial revolution guy", and with how rapidly things are evolving, I would say that "new industrial revolution" comparison isn't nearly strong enough. I don't think it's an unreasonable take to say that the present day, rapidly evolving "progress" in AI and robotics will create upheaval so profound that the entire popular view of what it even means to be human will change.
Not for us Christians, of course. AI and robots do not have souls; they are creations of man and only exist in this world of flesh. But for people who do not actively have God in their understanding, I sincerely don't know how they will cope, or what conclusions they will draw; start worshipping the robots maybe?
Nevertheless, our role is clear: continue to spread the Gospel message to as many as possible.
Speaking of "Popes named Leo", I was just reading Leo I this morning. His "Tome" was delivered in 449, and in it he further clarified foundational beliefs such as the nature of Jesus's natures: human, and divine. Thirteen "Pope Leo's" and about 1600 years later, we're wrestling with super intelligent, recursive self-improving computer algorithms. Weird!
Regardless, listening to all of the various commentators, the people who made these systems, major heads of state such as President Trump, and countless others all throwing widely divergent, competing opinions on the situation really does make it feel like we're in a situation of the sort which led up to major ecumenical councils and the like.
The Church will see her way through this, as she has always done in the past. After studying the very confusing explanations from figures like Nestorius or Theodore of Mopsuestia, Leo's "Tome" felt like a refreshing moment of singular clarity for me. I had the same impression when studying the huge debate about the permanent diaconate in the build-up to Vatican II, then reading the incredible "sensibleness" of "Lumen Gentium 29".
The Holy Spirit will guide us, even through these times.
Except these are real, and not from a video game! We've arrived. To where exactly is up for some debate, yet here we are.
Pope Leo XIV chose that name because Pope Leo the XIII was "the industrial revolution guy", and with how rapidly things are evolving, I would say that "new industrial revolution" comparison isn't nearly strong enough. I don't think it's an unreasonable take to say that the present day, rapidly evolving "progress" in AI and robotics will create upheaval so profound that the entire popular view of what it even means to be human will change.
Not for us Christians, of course. AI and robots do not have souls; they are creations of man and only exist in this world of flesh. But for people who do not actively have God in their understanding, I sincerely don't know how they will cope, or what conclusions they will draw; start worshipping the robots maybe?
Nevertheless, our role is clear: continue to spread the Gospel message to as many as possible.
Speaking of "Popes named Leo", I was just reading Leo I this morning. His "Tome" was delivered in 449, and in it he further clarified foundational beliefs such as the nature of Jesus's natures: human, and divine. Thirteen "Pope Leo's" and about 1600 years later, we're wrestling with super intelligent, recursive self-improving computer algorithms. Weird!
Regardless, listening to all of the various commentators, the people who made these systems, major heads of state such as President Trump, and countless others all throwing widely divergent, competing opinions on the situation really does make it feel like we're in a situation of the sort which led up to major ecumenical councils and the like.
The Church will see her way through this, as she has always done in the past. After studying the very confusing explanations from figures like Nestorius or Theodore of Mopsuestia, Leo's "Tome" felt like a refreshing moment of singular clarity for me. I had the same impression when studying the huge debate about the permanent diaconate in the build-up to Vatican II, then reading the incredible "sensibleness" of "Lumen Gentium 29".
The Holy Spirit will guide us, even through these times.