AI Researchers and Religious Leaders Form 'AI Avengers' to Engage Vatican on AGI Risks
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Robert Hart
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Summary
A group of approximately three dozen academics, scientists, policy researchers, and priests, informally called the 'AI Avengers,' has been working to engage the Vatican on the risks and benefits of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Led by AGI researcher John-Clark Levin, the group aims to raise awareness within the Catholic Church about AGI's potential existential threats and ethical implications, with Levin recently meeting with Vatican officials including Pope Leo XIV to discuss these concerns.
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· 3 pulledPope Leo XIV probably isn't the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios.
Levin hasn't been acting alone. In the past year, he has been quietly assembling a loose network of roughly three dozen academics, scientists, policy researchers, and priests — a group he half-jokingly calls the 'AI Avengers'.
who meet virtually to strategize how to get the Vatican thinking more seriously about AI's more ext
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