Gary Marcus Meets Pope Leo XIV, Hails Him as Clearest AI Thinker Among World Leaders
sapinker · x · 2026-11-12
Gary Marcus recounts meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Oct 30, calling him "by far the clearest thinker on AI among prominent world leaders" and praising the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. He endorses the Pope's five core points: AI's future is not predetermined and depends on human choices; machines are tools, not persons, and granting them legal personhood risks obscuring human responsibility; and certain decisions must never be delegated to machines.
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