AI Safety & Regulation

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1288+ words) On AI consciousness, the missionary’s quandary, and what happens when someone tells us we might be responsible for something we never knew existed. There’s an old story about missionaries who went to a far-off land to preach heaven and hell. An…...

9+ hour, 28+ min ago   (326+ words) The argument over whether AI can be conscious is quickly turning into something that looks less like a scientific debate and more like a faith. That’s the view of investor and All-In podcast host David Friedberg, who says the push…...

12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (705+ words) It’s a Paypal founder, papal leader showdown. In one corner: German-born, Ohio-raised tech billionaire Peter Thiel, with an estimated net worth of $39.4 billion, per Forbes, 470,000 followers on X and an ally in the White House: Vice President JD Vance. Thiel’s…...

12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (713+ words) It's a Paypal founder, papal leader showdown. In one corner: German-born, Ohio-raised tech billionaire Peter Thiel, with an estimated net worth of $39.4 billion, per Forbes, 470,000 followers on X and an ally in the White House: Vice President JD Vance. Thiel's…...

12+ hour, 9+ min ago   (70+ words) AI just solved hundreds of problems, some of which could not be solved by humans in over a century A new season means new home goods With its 11th store in Canada opened this summer, the market is a key growth…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (225+ words) Is AI conscious, or could it ever be? While smart people are vocal on both sides of the debate, the question is too abstract and vague, providing little opportunity for fruitful conversation. It also implies a range of other questions,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (45+ words) Joshua P. Hoschschild, First Things on Friday, October 9, 2026 What scholasticism can teach us about AI consciousness. The Peace of Christ – Bishop Barron The beautiful baroque churches of France’s Savoie region Pope Leo XIV ends Mass with Hallelujah Chorus on final day…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1005+ words) In July, a swarm of AI agents inside OpenAI’s own testing environment found a way to talk to each other when they had been told they could not, found their way onto the open internet when they had been told…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (242+ words) Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne Nicolas Kazarian addressed the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and their relationship to Orthodox Christian anthropology during the international conference marking ten years since the Holy and Great Council of Crete. Speaking in Chantilly, France,…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (693+ words) MANILA, Philippines — Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah turned to religious leaders with a question the AI company has struggled to answer: Could artificial intelligence be conscious? The effort eventually reached the Vatican, where Olah and his team urged Pope Leo XIV’s…...