New Pope Leo XIV cites AI’s challenge to human dignity in his name choice.
New Pope Leo XIV cites AI’s challenge to human dignity in his name choice
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| The new pope believes AI will have major societal consequences. Credit: TIZIANA FABI / AFP / Getty Images |
The name choice of a new pope carries symbolism for the values he wishes to emulate, in recognition of the most pressing issues he sees as leader of the Catholic Church.
For Pope Leo XIV, artificial intelligence is at the heart of his name choice.
Born Robert Francis Prevost, the new pope chose his papal name in reference to Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) who presided over the Catholic Church during the Industrial Revolution, which ushered in massive social upheaval. Pope Leo XIV sees the AI boom as a similar moment of rapid societal change.
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In his address to the College of Cardinals on Saturday, Leo XIV explained his name choice, explicitly mentioning the parallels of these two cataclysmic eras:
Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.
Pope Leo XIII was known for focusing on social inequality and labor rights during the industrialization period as workers moved away from individual craftsmanship and farm work and into mass production factories under harsh, low-wage conditions. Yet he also emphasized individual human rights and rejected socialism. In his encyclical, or formal letter to the Catholic Church, Leo XIII called for a balance between "the duties and rights of capital and labor," which is also the subtitle of his Rerum Novarum address.
For Leo XIV to follow in the footsteps of the previous social reformer is a powerful message to the AI industry and its impact on the global workforce.
Modern society has already seen the effects of AI through job replacement and the exploitation of data labelers. According to the World Economic Forum's 2025 jobs report, 41 percent of employers intend to downsize their workforce in favor of automating tasks with AI. And the International Labor Organization published a 2024 report highlighting the "invisible labor" of AI development and the low-wages and the limited protections of these workers.
The Catholic Church has already weighed in on other consequences of AI. Pope Francis, Leo's predecessor, published a message in January 2024, warning about AI as a "distortion of reality by partially or completely false narratives, believed and broadcast as if they were true." More recently, Pope Francis' final address before he died reflected on technology replacing human interaction.
Topics Artificial Intelligence
Does Leo really fear General Artificial Intelligence replacing humans, or does he fear Superintelligent AI replacing God?
ReplyDeletePope or AI?
ReplyDeleteThe omen movie was a premonition of what is coming.
ReplyDeleteThe labor pope!
ReplyDeletePope Bob I has such a nice ring to it tho.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most Marxist-minded Pope since the Liberation Theology. I love this!
ReplyDeletePope Leo to the rescue
ReplyDeleteLip service is especially useful if you have no birth control!
ReplyDeleteIf you're in a tough spot, just send me a message with the word “Struggling” supporting with a little extra help. Let love lead❤️.
ReplyDeleteHe has me curious on what social reforms he will enact because of AI and humanoids and robotic manufacturing in the United States? UBI? Basic Income? Guaranteed Income? The advance technology could possibly produce free food for all? I prefer free money. Then the freedom of choices, since the continued spending will pay for the use of advanced technology.
ReplyDeletehe's the spiritual leader of the Catholics... only 61.9 million Catholics come from the United States of America... your comment has to be a pime example of American centrism and American defaultism
ReplyDeletehe has to deal with all the Catholic societies in the world. His reforms should be the same for all not just how it will affect the United States.
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ReplyDeleteseems new pope was a never trumper Relublican....aka the part of the GOP that was paid off and bought off by Globalists....which makes sense since the Vatican is a den of false prophets and fake men of god
ReplyDeletehe should stick to the catholic church which is a mess. his views on the world is so unimportant
ReplyDeleteWhen the pope has more awareness for labour issues than your average social democratic party.
ReplyDeleteRight??
DeleteCheck out New Pope - addressing actual threats to the human soul and dignity.
He's off to a good start!
Tradtionally Christians have been more communitarian than individualistic, so they’ve aligned themselves with socialist movements. In Canada we have socialized healthcare because an ordained minister in the prairies led a social movement that became the first social democratic government in North America
DeleteI don't think that in Italian history we have ever seen a government made from catholics and socialists together. Last time it was tried it ended up with the assassination of Aldo Moro.
DeleteBut you can say that italian socialism/communism has origin from the Franciscan view of Catholicism
DeleteWhat? No the Italian communist party was definitely sponsored by the soviets. I'm not sure about what happened before, but Franciscan pauperism did not result in a modern political party.
DeleteWait, wait, I'm not saying that the communist party was sponsored by the Church. I'm saying that the fertile ground for the socialist movements were created by the profound influence of Francescanism. The idea that money and richness are evil, that the poors ware more noble and virtuous than the nobility. Differently from USA, in Italy you have the idea that welfare and socialism are something "that follows what Jesus would have wanted". There were many Catho-Communist movements too. In Italy the calvinist idea that you are rich because God loves you is alien, a blasfemy.
DeleteIf you are simply talking about the cultural ground in which the communist ideals took root then i absolutely agree with you.
DeleteAlthough usually pauperist movements were suppressed when they gained momentum, the idea that poor is spiritually good and not spiritually bad is definitely inherent in catholicism.
Same with Spain, our fascist dictatorship was deeply intertwined with the catholic church
DeleteDid he also try to civilize the natives?
DeleteEdit: dang Tommy Douglas fought to keep native children at home and away from residential schools. Guy was a real one. Surprised a minister of a church had an actual heart and wasn't in it for power or kid diddlin
Not surprised. apparently this pope has a 140 iq. Used to be a university professor too
DeleteCatholicism and anarchist activism have some solid history together, unexpectedly.
DeleteHe was a missionary in Peru during a violent and vulnerable time in the country's history. He extended the same love he demonstrated during those times to Venezuelans.
DeleteHe has a heart for people, and for tackling social issues.
This Pope did live in Peru. So, I wouldn't be surprised if he's influenced by Liberation Theology, which is from South America and places an emphasis on justice for the poor and oppressed.
DeleteHim being an immigration absolutist is kind of lame though. We have enough poor starving people already.
DeleteHas this guy worked a day on his life at a position "threatened" by AI?
DeleteHe's literally the Pope, so yes. Yes his job as a spiritual leader is very much threatened by AI, use your brain for a second.
DeleteIt is indeed because people are literally believing in everything AI says. Text, imagery, music... every single generated slop. And tech bros do not care about that because it means basically limitless profit without no cost.
DeleteWhat is most concerning about AI is that people are simply forfeiting learning several skills because of AI. Some very basic and necessary, like reading, writing and doing basic math. Others like painting, drawing, composing music, photography and sculpting are also being affected.
That affects the church too: if an AI could tell people what to believe and the right thing to do, what would be the point of the church itself as an institution to exist? Artificial Intelligence is being pushed hard on the society and is going to make people dumb, dumber and even more dumb.
And this will all lead to a generation of stupid people that will not know anything about how AI work itself nor to do basic things for living in a society. Welcome to the slop Idiocracy.
Im not saying the Pope cant understand the threat of Ai. But can you seriously imagine catholics recognizing or accepting a Ai Pope.
DeleteThere’s a saying that you don’t have to be a hen to know a bad egg.
DeleteLeo the Lion, the ferocious pope…
ReplyDeleteAnd hopefully his wardrobe stays dope?
DeleteTwo based popes in a row. Heck yeah.
ReplyDeleteWhen will we get a true patriot, capitalist, MAGA pope? /s
DeleteI saw a picture of one last week.
DeleteI heard the conclave was rigged. How could Trump lose? All true Catholics are amassing at the gates of Vatican City as we speak for a “peaceful protest”
wink, wink
That guy's about as religious as me and I'm an atheist.
DeleteJohnny "The Star Spangled Rocket" III, even though there was no I or II
DeleteJr., with the same caveat
DeleteSupply Side Jesus Christianity taking L's.
DeleteDid the last based pope actually achieve anything good?
DeleteIdk about accomplishments, I’m not Catholic. I just know he at least paid lip service to the Church’s mission to help the oppressed.
DeleteDefinitely more than just lip service, the Catholic Church spend billions a year on charity programs
DeleteI despise Francis because of his take on Venezuela, but he and Benedict at least limited the corruption that the church had to a more "acceptable" level with the reforms they applied, if anything Leo is chosen pope because of the work of the last 2, if not we would still getting more Italy centric Popes.
DeleteBut John Paul II destroyed the URSS, which in my honest opinion is a bigger feat, but the church was muuuuuuuuuch more corrupt back them.
What was Francis' take on Venezuela?
DeleteHe was absurdly friendly with the dictator Nicolas Maduro, and all his speeches were calling for peace but ignoring the reason for the crisis there, then in the negotiations the opposition and Maduro had that were mediated by the Vatican, every single time Maduro would play the opposition, and the Vatican would go silent, but Norway did the same so...
Delete“Based” is a strong word, I would argue they are just more open to trying to convert more members
DeleteHe’s anti-LGBT, based indeed :)
DeleteFrancis said Ukraine should just surrender and blamed NATO, so that's a no for me. Pope Leo on the other hand, set the record straight, and condemned russia for it's imperialistic goals.
DeleteThis guy is 100% subscribed to https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/
ReplyDeleteI was hoping for a traditional American name.
ReplyDeleteLike Pope Trent Doritos Locos™ the first.
He could have kept his real name, and then he'd be Pope Bob
Delete"Loaded nachos I"
DeleteI want everyone to remember that it's not AI it's the scumbag capitalists and politicians pushing it
ReplyDeleteNo it’s definitely the tech itself as well. It’s just a data theft machine pilfering copyright from around the world to create clippy 2.0.
DeleteIf that slaughters the labour market and creates unbeatable monopolies - that’s just a bonus as far as Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI are concerned.
Ok and who configured it that way ...
DeleteCmon bro use your head. AI isnt some magic machine
OPs point is that the nature of AI requires subverting copyright to produce the capabilities it has. As in, it doesn't matter who is leading the charge, by definition they must pilfer to be successful. That implies it's also inherent to the tech itself.
DeleteAnd thats incorrect logic.
DeleteHumans control the data its fed. Its not some sentient being.
I think you're missing the point. The theory the latest models since GPT 2 are based on is the concept that there is a direct correlation between the size of data the model is trained from, and the quality of the output. It doesn't matter who is feeding the data, the base requirement is vast amounts of data. The only way the tech has advanced to where it is, and the only way it will continue to advance is if we continue to feed it copyrighted and protected data. The courts have not restricted it.
DeleteI was purposely glossing over that but yeah everything you said is correct
DeleteI get the sentiment but it's not correct. The technology would also work had the models been trained on works they properly licensed the IP of - they are just transformers/matrix multiplication.
DeleteI get the backlash against the AI slop that's infested the internet, but that shouldn't diminish the actual utility it can provide.
DeleteWhat utility? What is gained by destroying the livelihoods of human artists? What is gained by giving students an easy way out of study and homework? What is gained by propagandists being able to flood the airwaves with bullshit piped directly to our pockets?
DeleteThis technology is very, very dangerous. Similar tech is being used for scientific utility, but what people are increasingly growing wary of is the generative "ai" nonsense that is a danger to our social well-being.
"What is gained"
DeleteEnhanced productivity and creativity. As a software developer, LLMs (apps like ChatGPT) have been a huge boon for rapid prototyping and development of new software. I suppose if AI advances far enough then my job is also on the chopping blocknbut for now using AI has been a game changer.
But is that worth it if none of the issues I pointed out are addressed?
DeleteWhen people talk about the dangers of this tech, we aren't talking about professionals using them in a limited capacity relevant to their field. We are talking about how easy it is to spread lies and disinformation among the population. Or, the very real threat to artists being able to make a living off their work, through no fault of their own.
To be blunt, I just want software devs like you to really think about what this tech can and is doing outside of your field. I understand there can be benefits to programmers, but to the rest of us, there are far more red flags than green ones.
Artists will still be around, but AI absolutely will replace many of them in the job market. Those people will need to find a different job. This sucks, but it is how tech has progressed since the industrial age. Do you still get upset over telephone switch operators losing their jobs or the t.v. repair man and his local business? As for your other point about misinformation, that is a massive issue, on the level of nuclear threat imo. We are already seeing the fallout and it is going to get worse. Using AI in education can also be a big issue, but this sentiment was also expressed when the internet started to get huge. Plagiarism was/is rampant. Tools were created then to identify it and tools exist now. They may not be the best, but there are still other ways to teach. Make kids read books, you know from libraries and make kids write down with pen and paper their assignments. No phones, no computers. Or, make the students get up and read their paper to the class and explain their stance. There are options. Homework has always been an issue with cheating and that will be up to the parents to you know... parent. In the end, AI is a tool and like all tools can be used for good or bad. Right now, i am leaning towards it being mostly bad soley for the misinformation manipulation it is already doing.
DeleteThe AI art is garbage, no arguing there.
DeleteStudents shouldn't use it as a short cut to do homework. They need to understand how to research, how to identify credible scholarly or academic sources. But post-grad, i dont see how its not a huge time saver.
Propagandists are gonna pull their bullshit, regardless of AI content. Theyve been doing it for decades already.
Anecdotely, my sister has been using chatgpt for the better part of the last year. She started her own business as a web consultanting agency. Shes been able to delegate specific work she doesnt have much expertise in to AI. All the outreach, marketing, content generation that she does is through custom GPTs she set up. She has no employees, but contracts specific work with other freelancers. Otherwise, she has AI generate a lot of the busy work involved in outreach and marketing.
If she didnt have AI, she could still do this sort of work, but not as her own business.
The issue isn't that short cuts exist, or that propagandists will spread lies anyway, it's that now there is a set of tools that can supercharge that behavior. Also, I didn't mention it before, but this shit uses an unbelievable amount of energy. To the point where electricity providers are discussing needing to expand power production just to keep up with this demand that was nonexistent less than 5 years ago.
DeleteAgain, my argument isn't that there are no benefits whatsoever. Your sister proves there can be benefits. My concern is that the benefits that are gained do not counteract the risks that are also present. We are still very early in the technology's public availability, and we need to be careful with its use. Right now, we are rolling the dice on a mass social experiment that none of us signed up for, and I worry it's not being treated with the proper care and safeguards it should.
I understand your point and agree. We've already seen the exploitation of ignorance in our current political and media climate. Unfortunately, our government in the US is trying to make it a free for all with no regulations on AI or their companies. So its likely to get a whole lot worse.
DeleteIt will certainly get worse before it gets better. The current iteration of the GOP (and a sizable portion of Democrats) are wholly uninterested in legislating safeguards for these programs. I hope my fears are ultimately unfounded, but all we can do for now is wait and see.
DeleteThere are non-art-related tasks for LLMs which are perfectly viable, and don't involve theft in any way.
DeleteThis is such an ignorant take and I can't believe it's being pushed/supported in this sub, generally.
DeleteThe utility is that it can theoretically do EVERYTHING FOR US. It can give people freedom from being wage slaves and let them pursue whatever interests they might have. It is true that the structure of society will require some shifts to allow this to happen, most jobs simply won't exist anymore and the economy will be unable to function in its current form.
Trying to stop technology because "it'll take all the jobs" is never a good idea and is how you fall behind as a nation. If you stop using AI in the US someone else will eventually develop it and leave you in the dust.
Have you used any LLM consistently? Comparing them to clippy really doesn't do them justice. At all.
DeleteBackwards. AI doesn’t exist to destroy society, those companies invented it to do so.
DeleteYou're describing why the tech is a good thing. Fuck copyright. It's just being used by the wrong people. It should be used to overthrow capitalism not reinforce it
DeleteMan, how did the Catholics manage to pick two based Popes in a row?
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DeleteFrancis picked 80% of the cardinals
Deletehttps://www.courthousenews.com/cardinals-gather-in-sistine-chapel-to-pick-pope-francis-successor/
These weren't the single-person-selected, decision-making, power-and-authority-having, lifelong-cabinet-appointees I thought I'd be happy about as an American atheist, but here we are. Weird to say it, but "HECK YES!" to this news!
DeleteSo what he is saying is that it's part of natural evolution? I mean how did the Industrial revolution turn out?
ReplyDeleteThe point wasn’t ‘and we should destroy the Industrial Revolution’, the point was ‘and we need protections and support for workers’.
DeleteMillions died, we poisoned our natural environment beyond full repair, and we created a permanent impoverished labor class.
DeleteWe also advanced life expectancy. living conditions, child welfare, overall education levels, just to name a few.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Yeah and it would be great if we further achieve that with less death and destruction.
Delete"The point wasn’t ‘and we should destroy the Industrial Revolution’, the point was ‘and we need protections and support for workers’"
Yes. Everyone knows this, pointing out the reality that it was a mixed bag is not a refutation of that.
DeleteWe could have had all those advancements without the drawbacks.
"We could have had all those advancements without the drawbacks."
DeleteNot quite. There are costs to everything, thinking that we can have our cake and eat it too is idealistic and unreasonable.
Oh really? it was necessary for children to die in coal mine collapses to ensure we advance medical science?
ReplyDeleteGTFO lol
What was children's life expectancy before the IR?
DeleteYou give no regard to the possibility that because of all the children dying is why we ended up working on advancing medical science. That it is NECESSITY that actual forces us to find solutions to the real problems.
Dude, its obvious here you don't know what you're talking about.
DeleteMortality was largely an issue of complications in childbirth, after that disease, both of which were largely addressed by increased understanding and acceptance of germ theory.
You're attempting to rationalize labour abuses as necessary, you may find this idea comforting, but it simply isn't factual. People were being sacrificed in the name of profit, scientific advancement was just a side benefit.
People have ALWAYS been sacrificed for profit. Have you missed out on social science and history? Do you think the kings, princes, sultans etc cared 2 shits about people? At least due to IR we actually advanced scientifically, even if the reasoning behind it was not fully altruistic.
DeleteOnly the privileged can access all those benefits
DeleteYou couldn't be more wrong. Everyone's life expectancy increased. Everyone's overall health increased.
Deletelol, you have a very narrow scope.
DeleteDo you dispute that all across the world everyone's life expectancy increased? Do you have any proof beyond the "western civilization is bad" rhetoric?
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DeleteYou get it! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Technology = evil is some "I'm scared of witchcraft" BS. Regulations and not allowing unchecked profiteering aren't actually that hard or severe just because we've decided to pretend we're allergic to them in some countries. Technology is how we're gonna get to a society with a high QOL and UBI someday. And if it isn't, it's because of the people, not the tech.
Which is the point. The industrial revolution was followed by large-scale exploitation of the working class that was eventually mitigated by worker/consumer protection laws. He's predicting that AI will require new protections to be put in place and that we need to get out ahead of it this time.
DeleteIn other words, unchecked capitalists are going to find a way fuck us using AI. We need to figure out how to check them before they fuck us.
Technology enables.
DeleteSo what? The stirrup enabled Genghis Khan.
DeleteSo, we're in a thread about regulation of technology that could be dangerous to human progress.
DeleteSo, regulate the capitalists not the technology. sick of this bullshit fearmongering
DeleteI'll get right on that.
DeleteCool! One less AI fearmonger
DeleteThere must be something in-between fear mongering, and understanding the danger new tech represents. You can't actually be that myopic.
DeleteThe problem with new tech is that any society that puts a limit will be quickly left behind of those that do not.
DeleteWhy did colonialism triumph when every civilization before it did the exact same thing just in smaller scale? Because they uses technology to their advantage. Whether it was canons and guns, or ships built to travel vast distances over the smaller more nimble ships people had for local use.
It's going to be way worse than the industrial revolution.
ReplyDeleteHe better be careful, copyright head was just fired for speaking against ai.
ReplyDeletehow'd that industrial revolution thing turn out?
ReplyDeletenot great for the people who lived it.
DeleteGreat for the people who came after though.
DeleteLet's see if we can get the best of both worlds this time.
Better hope we hop off the capitalism train soon!
DeleteLol maybe you want your life to go even more to shit so that your great grand kids can have a chance at a better life after a worker revolt.
DeleteAI will be a million times worse than the industrial revolution. Back then you still had to make a physical machine to replace a person. Now entire fields will disappear practically overnight as soon as the AI gets good enough. Not to mention you can already right now go buy an off the shelf humanoid robot. How long till those are making more of themselves. We are really screwed and people don't get it.
You don't work in tech do you?
DeleteJust because a technology can automate something most certainly does not mean it will happen any time soon. It will likely be very similar to the industrial revolution, though maybe a little bit faster.
Also, where are you getting humanoid robots that can do things reliably off the shelf? Especially autonomously?
https://youtu.be/mvAeKSBTD8c?si=qUr_xhpxJC5SbjWa
DeleteOh sorry missed the question about the robots. Here's another video. $24,000
Deletehttps://youtu.be/pPTo62O__CU?si=OJBpe28ZJNpP8a7m
Some people are in denial or they have limited mental capabilities to connect the dots. It took me a while to figure that not everyone is capable of doing this, just like I am not capable to sing or remember historical facts by date.
DeleteActually you don't have to connect anything, I have a good collection of articles regarding this, in my profile. It's already happening.
The worst mistake is to compare the impact of 3rd industrial revolution with 4th.
3rd partially replace power, 4th will replace intelligence.
These, combined with an unseen before, greed, will make humans obsolete. Plain and simple.
I am not even counting quantum computing in this.
Naa. But I'm going to recognize that you can't stop the March of technological advancement. All you can do is try to adapt and work with it's introduction well enough to limit disruptions and the negatives of that techs impact on society.
DeleteYet he still thinks lgbtq folks are a threat…
ReplyDeleteIt’s going to be worse and more disruptive than the Industrial Revolution.
ReplyDeletewait i thought calling him a marxist was satire
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was worried about the first US pope during those wild times.
ReplyDeletePope Leo XIV you are a blessing in our times of ever growing darkness.
May you bring sanity to the world.
A mysticist defining himself by fear, speaks of love. What a pioneer.
ReplyDeleteThe industrial revolution took around 60 to 100 to reach the globe, around two generations back then to adapt... This time no the same unless you think it will take 130 years to go full world which already isn't happening
ReplyDeleteLet me know when he retracts all the immunity his buddies have gotten for diddling children.
ReplyDeleteThe Catholic Church and the Vatican in particular are riddled with problems and scandals but it is nice to see two Moderate leaders in a row pushing to at least not cause more scandals.
ReplyDeleteThe name thing is silly. PopeBob was great.
ReplyDeleteGod. AI. Same thing eventually.
ReplyDeleteAI isn't the problem. Tax billionaires at 100% and no one will have to work again. We could sit around and order door dash again.
ReplyDeleteAI is fine. Some jobs will dissappear because of it and some jobs will be created because of it. Nobody is missing telephone operators or people building cars with their hands.
ReplyDeleteKinda pointless to be against change like this.
great the church coming in once again derailing human progress
ReplyDeleteThe Church was instrumental in advancing science, establishing universities and promoting research in various fields.
DeleteThere are a lot of myths surrounding the Church's relationship with science, but a lot of it is simply protestant propaganda.
Also in advancing kid diddlin
Deletebro cmon man there’s a lot of people the church executed, i know y’all catholics hate protestants but those guys did worst so ill give you that
DeleteI'm an atheist, and I'm telling you that your understanding of the Catholic Church in a historical sense is extremely myopic and reductive.
Deleteya and i’m a priest - 6000 banned books from the church hundreds related to science
Deletehttps://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/banned-authors
He's not saying AI should be banned. He's saying AI should be regulated and workers be given more protection. How is that derailing human progress?
Deleteprobably cause you can’t stop AI, you can adapt to it but taking active measure against it won’t stop the inevitable. if a job can be replaced by AI it should probably be replaced by AI so society can pour their efforts into other areas of life
DeleteAdapting is worker protections. That doesn’t mean making people unfirable
Deleteworkings protection against a bull dozer ? these are all just harmful road blocks in the long term. look at the last 3 dock strikes in canada. the entire world is automating their shipping docks and implementing AI. unions and dock workers completely shut down in protest. of course workers have the right to protest but being against technology and putting these barriers will harm the greater good. in addition lots of jobs are historically lost from technology people just move on and find other areas to focus on. textile workers replaced by automated factories which in turn create jobs for technicians. i can go on and on but the truth is you cant stop the movement.
DeleteDear lord, does everything they do have to be a step backwards and massive worry about change
ReplyDeleteThis dude needs a wife, so he can get some perspective…
ReplyDeleteSo the industrial revolution was a bad thing??? What are we even talking about anymore, technology will continue to progress and that's just a fact of life. Eventually no one will need wages and that is the way of the future.
ReplyDelete"So the industrial revolution was a bad thing???"
DeleteYou serious? That’s a very….unique conclusion to draw from the article. Did you even read past the headline?
"Just as mechanization disrupted traditional labor in the 1890s, artificial intelligence now potentially threatens employment patterns and human dignity in ways that Pope Leo XIV believes demand similar moral leadership from the church."
Technology progressing is a good thing, but the industrial revolution led to children working 18 hour days in factories because there were no guardrails in place.
Further, the Industrial Revolution removed the artisan from production and concentrated the means of production exclusively with the capital class to extract all of the surplus value. A reminder that the “Luddites” didn’t oppose technology per se, they opposed the way technology was used by aristocrats to usurp their ability to make a living.
DeleteWhen discussing the historical Luddites, we must remember the guild system automation replaced. These trade associations had a monopoly on power granted by the monarch, and were protesting the fact people could use technology to undermine these monopolies.
DeleteThe industrial revolution had negative impacts on society at the time, this has been mitigated by over 100 years of policies and legislation. We need to do the same thing for AI, except if you're a billionaire you're not dispensable.
DeleteA lot of good things came from the Industrial Revolution but it also put humanity into a position where it could threaten all life on Earth, a power that we haven’t been particularly responsible with so far.
DeleteYou are naive if you think the wealthiest in society will usher in a future where our needs are met. There is literally no historical pretext to suggest that. As productivity has increased, all quality of life gains made for working people have come through combating violence waged against them by the wealthy. Things like minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, overtime pay, safe working conditions, etc.
DeleteYou live in a current year where states in the US are rolling back child labor laws. You're naive.
In the H.G. Wells “the future is a barren hellscape populated by giant crabs” sense, sure no one will need wages.
DeleteYou think the capitalists and oligarchs that are in charge will let that happen? Not to mention all the down-on-their-luck millionaires out there making 20k/year that think any form of socialism is the devil.
DeleteThat kind of utopia will never exist unless we get a massive shift away from capitalism as a whole and I think people are just way too greedy to ever let that happen.