Ok Chelsea, with this fringy mini I'm going to
give you an option but not based on like what
you think the topic is. Based purely on the source.
Ok. Now we can choose. As long as I get a choice.
You can choose between PCGamer .com and Popular
Mechanics. PCGamer. Ok. I don't know why I'm
intrigued. Never heard of it before. This article
is posted on September 19th, 2025 on PCGamer
.com written by Rich Stanton. Article title,
Pope Leo refuses to authorize an AI Pope and
declares the technology quote, an empty cold
shell that will do great damage to what humanity
is about. I'm sorry. Why is PCGamer covering
this? It's a great question. I was not expecting
that. And did Friar Bernardi release this? Does
PC Gamer even know that we need his opinion on
this? Well, you got to assume Friar Bernardi
is the source for PC Gamer. I would hope. If
there any sort of decent journalistic thing,
they got Friar Bernardi's opinion. Okay, let's
hear it. I look forward to this. So Pope Leo
XIV has rejected an idea of an AI Pope saying
in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen
that, quote, If there's anybody who should not
be represented by an avatar, I would say the
Pope is high on the list, end quote. Pope Leo,
who is forthright about his views on the new
technology, also said that he had been asked
for his authorization to create an AI Pope. Someone
recently asked authorization to create an artificial
me so that anybody could sign on to this website
now. personal audience with the Pope, end quote,
said the pontiff. Quote, this artificial intelligence
pope would give them answers to their questions
and I said I'm not going to authorize that, end
quote. Pope Leo has previously said that he chose
the name Leo partially as a tribute to Pope Leo
III, the 19th century pope best known for rarum
novarum, a treatise on the exploitation of the
working class during the Industrial Revolution.
Interesting. That's where I know I'm from. Yeah,
yeah of course. Now in one of his first addresses
to Cardinals Pope Leo said AI is quote another
Industrial Revolution and quote. I'm starting
to like Pope Leo. It was all in the name Yeah,
yeah in his latest interview the Pope returns
to the themes of human rights and dignity quote
If we automate the whole world and only a few
people have the means with which to more than
just survive But to live well have meaningful
lives. There's a big problem a huge problem coming
down the line and quote said Pope Leo The Holy
Father worries about quote, extremely rich people
who are investing in artificial intelligence,
but totally ignoring the value of human beings
and of humanity, end quote. He also adds quote,
if the church doesn't speak up or if someone
doesn't speak up about that, but the church certainly
needs to be one of the voices here. The danger
is that the digital world will go on its own
and we will become pawns or left by the wayside,
end quote. The Pope says he's not against progress
or new technology, but basically doesn't like
the way things are going. Quote. I think to lose
that relationship will leave science as an empty,
cold shell that will do great damage to what
humanity is about. And the human heart will be
lost in the midst of the technological development,
as things are going right now," end quote. Popplio
is clearly up for the fight against Big Tech,
and his remarks echo some of his previous statements.
I particularly enjoyed when he called AI a threat
to, quote, human dignity, justice, and labor,
end quote. Heck, he even sees Pokemon as an article
we could read apparently outside of this. I'm
not looking to convert anytime soon, but I'm
certainly listening. End of story, end of article.
Chelsea, what do you think? I wouldn't usually,
like, not the devil or anything. I wouldn't usually,
like, side with the Pope. I don't do a lot of
reading about the Pope or what he's interested
in. But I think he makes a good point on this
one. And you know, with all this stuff going
on with AI, I think in the future, human creativity
is going to be something that's more and more.
Not for a while, because AI is in its infancy
right now. We're undervaluing human creativity
at this point. Yes. Because the other side's
so novel. Not only that, but for ease because,
you know, it can make things sound so much better
so easily. So you don't have to work as hard.
Yeah, human creativity is almost going to be
a thing of luxury for the rich. Yes. So it's
losing that even when you get the AI. generated
music and everything and you get people talking
about professors saying they're battling people
using AI more and more and it's getting more
and more undetectable. In five, ten years maybe,
creativity and the humanity in writing is really
going to be that much more desirable I think
when AI becomes so deeply ingrained because obviously
it's going to take off a lot more from here.
We're going to see, even now just with the explosion
of it, you see it everywhere. So I think he's
right in that. I think along the same lines of
that, you need to keep some of the stuff away
from AI. Obviously, they're going to take it.
It's going to explode more from here. But I've
listened to a few podcasts on where AI is going
and the implications of AI on society. And there's
never going to be anything that's quite going
to, especially with AI going to be a replacement
for what What a human brain can come up with
and create. Yeah, problems really going to be
with AI and we're probably going a bit long in
the fringy mini So I will just kind of leave
this comment where it's at is that the question
is not whether or not it can replace a human
at this point it's a question of whether or not
managers and shareholders are willing to believe
it can reasonably replace humans at its current
state which the answer is yes because it's gonna
up their profits because they're not gonna be
paying a human being to do that and use their
brain which is scary thing. Yes. And that is
another form of late stage capitalism. And I
think that may be a little bit too deep for this
fringy mini. And I must also say PCGamerJournalism
.com. Where the hell's Friar Banati? and i was
gonna say i don't we can't use this source again
because they didn't do their due diligence and
at least get to even though the poke talks on
pokemon didn't make comment and the next article
i could read is about the poke add it to the
next fringy mini add it to the list camera how
did they score this exclusive interview with
No, they didn't. They talked from the article
from biographer Eloise Allen, who's at Crux now,
taking the Catholic pulse. It all makes sense
now. Okay, and with that, let's give our thoughts
out to you. Try a brunetti. Go. Try a brunetti.
Do it. That's for us. Exactly. We can't. We got
to remain impartial. Anyhow, bye.