The Pope released a 42,000-word document about AI this week and an Anthropic co-founder was sitting next to him

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The Pope released a 42,000-word document arguing that AI ethics require legal frameworks, not just self-regulation by private companies. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah agreed, highlighting the need for external oversight.

Spent some time reading through it. It is not a "technology bad" rant. He is actually making a specific argument that ethics talk means nothing without legal frameworks, and that a handful of private companies should not decide AI morality. The wild part is Chris Olah from Anthropic was on that stage and basically agreed. Said developers cannot self-regulate because they are too deep in their own incentives. I wrote about both that and the ECB's emergency banking meeting this week in the same piece because they felt connected. Two completely different institutions are saying the same thing in the same week. [Read here the full article.](https://medium.com/ai-ai-oh/when-the-pope-and-your-bank-both-say-ai-is-a-problem-maybe-it-is-99e751ebe8cb)
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