Why don’t you like the pope?

That Jesus guy was woke as fuck.

He is only considered left wing by the american hard-right. In most of Europe and the UK he’s a fairly neutral, almost apolitical, figure.

Traditional Christian values like helping the poor and whipping people in financial services?

Pope Francis was considered ‘left’ and ‘woke’ too, for the basic humanity of [checks notes] not believing in American Jesus

I mean, I suppose there would be nothing stopping the Pope from issuing a decree that LLMs are violations of all sorts of religious principles.

First, it could be viewed as a form of Idol Worship, a modern day Tower of Babel. The AI zealots are literally trying to summon a benevolent deity. That’s Pride. That’s Blasphemy. It’s literally playing God. Whatever god these AI zealots hope to create must be below the power of the One True God. Yet they seek to worship it. They seek to depend on it for sustenance, for wisdom, for guidance. They want to turn their entire existence over to a machine. They want to worship it. Instead of worshiping God, they seek to bow down before their own golden calf.

Or you could view it as an act of black magic. LLMs are trained off the corpus of human knowledge; they’re trying to speak a deity into being. That sounds like literal witchcraft, a mockery of God’s Creation of Man. Or Hell, the Vatican believes in the literal Devil and literal demons. When we pass our reasoning onto these machines, do we not make ourselves vulnerable to demonic intervention? Who’s to say ol’ Beelzebub isn’t back there tinkering with your model weights, corrupting your agents so that they will lead to malevolent results?

Maybe that’s why LLMs hallucinate so much, and why the whole conclusion of the AI alignment field seems to be “we’re fucked if we actually manage to create a real superhuman AGI.” Maybe it turns out that human beings actually can create a true intelligence. What we cannot do is create one that isn’t evil. Only the hand of the Divine has enough subtlety to craft a mind that is both intelligent as humans and also not irredeemably evil. To have an intelligence without evil, one must have a soul. And only God can create those. Any AGI must be a literal soulless monster. Any act of creating one an spitting in the eyes of God. There are some lines we were just never meant to cross.

And trump tries to channel Baron Harkonnen by invading Iran

It’s just coordination, I know the Crusaders have experience with trebuchets

If you’ve got evidence that the Pope himself is a predator, I’d be curious to see. If you’re saying “The Pope can’t say anything good ever because of the evil the organization he represents has done countless atrocities.” You’re going to face a lot of adversity in your life. Nothing is as black and white as we’d all prefer it to be.