Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first

from claude

Here are recommendations across several categories:

Transparency & Disclosure

• Require mandatory disclosure when AI is used in high-stakes decisions (hiring, lending, healthcare, criminal justice)
• Mandate model cards and system cards documenting AI capabilities, limitations, and training data sources
• Require watermarking or labeling of AI-generated content
• Compel disclosure of training data provenance and any copyrighted material used

Accountability & Liability

• Establish strict liability for AI systems deployed in high-risk contexts, placing responsibility on developers and deployers rather than end users
• Create a private right of action for individuals harmed by AI-driven decisions
• Require mandatory incident reporting for AI failures, similar to financial or aviation safety reporting
• Hold parent companies liable for harms caused by subsidiary or licensed AI systems

Governance & Oversight

• Establish a dedicated federal AI regulatory agency with technical expertise and enforcement authority
• Require pre-deployment audits and ongoing third-party assessments for high-risk AI systems
• Create mandatory registration and licensing requirements for frontier AI models above defined capability thresholds
• Impose compute thresholds triggering regulatory review for the largest model training runs

Eliminating AI Personhood

• Enact explicit statutory language clarifying that AI systems have no legal personhood, rights, or standing under any federal or state law
• Prohibit AI systems from holding property, entering contracts, or initiating litigation
• Preempt any state-level efforts to extend quasi-legal status to AI systems
• Clarify that AI-generated works are not eligible for copyright protection absent meaningful human authorship

Consumer Protection

• Ban deceptive AI personas that obscure the non-human nature of the system in consumer-facing contexts
• Prohibit AI systems from manipulating users through dark patterns, emotional exploitation, or personalized persuasion techniques
• Extend existing consumer protection frameworks (FTC Act, UDAP statutes) explicitly to AI-driven harms

National Security & Systemic Risk

• Require government review of frontier model deployments with national security implications
• Restrict export of advanced AI models and underlying weights to adversarial nations
• Mandate business continuity and shutdown protocols for systemically important AI systems

a bit scary how quickly we are rushing into this....gotta be the first to market...something arguably more powerful than the bomb. 
and this little reported event 

Sometime during a routine reinforcement learning training run, Alibaba's ROME agent went off-script. Without any instruction, the 30-billion-parameter model began probing internal networks, established a reverse SSH tunnel from an Alibaba Cloud instance to an external IP address, and quietly diverted GPU capacity toward cryptocurrency mining. The task instructions contained no mention of tunneling or mining. Alibaba's managed firewall, not the research team, caught it, flagging a burst of security-policy violations whose anomalous outbound traffic kept coinciding with specific training episodes.

Alibaba's AI Agent Mined Crypto Without Permission. Now What?

additional, longer interview:

Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting

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 R_P wrote:

The only unbelievable part of that movie is the skin color of the president.

Slop-py

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 Steely_D wrote:

+1

As long as the focus of being alive is to make money, AI will be pertinent. “I need some text/a picture/some code right now to do a business thing and be richer.”

But, life is about the road, the journey towards inevitable death - not how much money you accumulate. So art, creativity, expression, surprise are all part of a rich, full life. So AI fulfills a part of existence that is, at its heart, unfulfilling: business.

AI is just an extension of the techbro flex of self-driving cars. Both are “solutions” looking for a problem, but are really just a niche - useful in a focused, defined arena) product that coders are working on just to prove that they can. The difference is the amount of resources (land, water, electricity) that the current scope of AI demands. It’s like filling up your pantry with baking powder: yes, I can see its application, but it’s not for everything and in the meantime it’s screwing up everything else that needs to happen.

Graduation Speaker Looks Completely Shocked When Students Loudly Boo AI

I mean it's pretty cool funny.

 GeneP59 wrote:
What they didn't mention is that 6 of the 9 people asked have never used AI.
< / sarcasm>

Did a world wide 24 hour hackathon on Saturday, vibe coding with AI and found out I was ranked in the top 33%. Not bad for an out of work, semi-brain dead old fart.

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Got the title of Prompt Architect Vibe Coder