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Ok Chelsea, with this fringy mini I'm going to

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give you an option but not based on like what

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you think the topic is. Based purely on the source.

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Ok. Now we can choose. As long as I get a choice.

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You can choose between PCGamer .com and Popular

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Mechanics. PCGamer. Ok. I don't know why I'm

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intrigued. Never heard of it before. This article

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is posted on September 19th, 2025 on PCGamer

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.com written by Rich Stanton. Article title,

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Pope Leo refuses to authorize an AI Pope and

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declares the technology quote, an empty cold

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shell that will do great damage to what humanity

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is about. I'm sorry. Why is PCGamer covering

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this? It's a great question. I was not expecting

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that. And did Friar Bernardi release this? Does

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PC Gamer even know that we need his opinion on

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this? Well, you got to assume Friar Bernardi

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is the source for PC Gamer. I would hope. If

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there any sort of decent journalistic thing,

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they got Friar Bernardi's opinion. Okay, let's

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hear it. I look forward to this. So Pope Leo

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XIV has rejected an idea of an AI Pope saying

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in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen

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that, quote, If there's anybody who should not

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be represented by an avatar, I would say the

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Pope is high on the list, end quote. Pope Leo,

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who is forthright about his views on the new

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technology, also said that he had been asked

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for his authorization to create an AI Pope. Someone

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recently asked authorization to create an artificial

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me so that anybody could sign on to this website

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now. personal audience with the Pope, end quote,

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said the pontiff. Quote, this artificial intelligence

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pope would give them answers to their questions

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and I said I'm not going to authorize that, end

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quote. Pope Leo has previously said that he chose

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the name Leo partially as a tribute to Pope Leo

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III, the 19th century pope best known for rarum

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novarum, a treatise on the exploitation of the

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working class during the Industrial Revolution.

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Interesting. That's where I know I'm from. Yeah,

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yeah of course. Now in one of his first addresses

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to Cardinals Pope Leo said AI is quote another

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Industrial Revolution and quote. I'm starting

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to like Pope Leo. It was all in the name Yeah,

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yeah in his latest interview the Pope returns

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to the themes of human rights and dignity quote

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If we automate the whole world and only a few

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people have the means with which to more than

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just survive But to live well have meaningful

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lives. There's a big problem a huge problem coming

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down the line and quote said Pope Leo The Holy

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Father worries about quote, extremely rich people

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who are investing in artificial intelligence,

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but totally ignoring the value of human beings

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and of humanity, end quote. He also adds quote,

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if the church doesn't speak up or if someone

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doesn't speak up about that, but the church certainly

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needs to be one of the voices here. The danger

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is that the digital world will go on its own

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and we will become pawns or left by the wayside,

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end quote. The Pope says he's not against progress

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or new technology, but basically doesn't like

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the way things are going. Quote. I think to lose

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that relationship will leave science as an empty,

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cold shell that will do great damage to what

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humanity is about. And the human heart will be

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lost in the midst of the technological development,

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as things are going right now," end quote. Popplio

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is clearly up for the fight against Big Tech,

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and his remarks echo some of his previous statements.

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I particularly enjoyed when he called AI a threat

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to, quote, human dignity, justice, and labor,

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end quote. Heck, he even sees Pokemon as an article

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we could read apparently outside of this. I'm

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not looking to convert anytime soon, but I'm

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certainly listening. End of story, end of article.

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Chelsea, what do you think? I wouldn't usually,

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like, not the devil or anything. I wouldn't usually,

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like, side with the Pope. I don't do a lot of

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reading about the Pope or what he's interested

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in. But I think he makes a good point on this

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one. And you know, with all this stuff going

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on with AI, I think in the future, human creativity

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is going to be something that's more and more.

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Not for a while, because AI is in its infancy

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right now. We're undervaluing human creativity

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at this point. Yes. Because the other side's

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so novel. Not only that, but for ease because,

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you know, it can make things sound so much better

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so easily. So you don't have to work as hard.

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Yeah, human creativity is almost going to be

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a thing of luxury for the rich. Yes. So it's

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losing that even when you get the AI. generated

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music and everything and you get people talking

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about professors saying they're battling people

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using AI more and more and it's getting more

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and more undetectable. In five, ten years maybe,

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creativity and the humanity in writing is really

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going to be that much more desirable I think

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when AI becomes so deeply ingrained because obviously

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it's going to take off a lot more from here.

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We're going to see, even now just with the explosion

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of it, you see it everywhere. So I think he's

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right in that. I think along the same lines of

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that, you need to keep some of the stuff away

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from AI. Obviously, they're going to take it.

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It's going to explode more from here. But I've

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listened to a few podcasts on where AI is going

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and the implications of AI on society. And there's

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never going to be anything that's quite going

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to, especially with AI going to be a replacement

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for what What a human brain can come up with

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and create. Yeah, problems really going to be

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with AI and we're probably going a bit long in

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the fringy mini So I will just kind of leave

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this comment where it's at is that the question

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is not whether or not it can replace a human

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at this point it's a question of whether or not

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managers and shareholders are willing to believe

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it can reasonably replace humans at its current

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state which the answer is yes because it's gonna

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up their profits because they're not gonna be

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paying a human being to do that and use their

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brain which is scary thing. Yes. And that is

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another form of late stage capitalism. And I

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think that may be a little bit too deep for this

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fringy mini. And I must also say PCGamerJournalism

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.com. Where the hell's Friar Banati? and i was

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gonna say i don't we can't use this source again

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because they didn't do their due diligence and

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at least get to even though the poke talks on

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pokemon didn't make comment and the next article

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i could read is about the poke add it to the

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next fringy mini add it to the list camera how

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did they score this exclusive interview with

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No, they didn't. They talked from the article

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from biographer Eloise Allen, who's at Crux now,

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taking the Catholic pulse. It all makes sense

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now. Okay, and with that, let's give our thoughts

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out to you. Try a brunetti. Go. Try a brunetti.

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Do it. That's for us. Exactly. We can't. We got

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to remain impartial. Anyhow, bye.