Pope Leo, Hinton and Bengio warn of AI catastrophe

Pope Leo XIV criticizes Nvidia's Jensen Huang for downplaying AI risks and says safety concerns are not 'fake news,' a rare moral intervention from the Vatican against a frontier-tech CEO.

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• techmeme.com President Trump signs an executive order requiring federal government agencies to refer to AI as "Super Intelligence" or "SI" in all official communications (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg) 18h ↗
• cnbc.com Trump tries to rename AI 'super intelligence' as polls show him sinking on key issue 19h ↗
• thenextweb.com After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI 19h ↗
• theverge.com AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’ 22h ↗
• thenextweb.com Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang 26h ↗
• techmeme.com Sources: Nvidia is in early-stage talks with insurance companies to structure risk-mitigation products to protect lenders against loan defaults by neoclouds (Financial Times) 29h ↗
• techmeme.com Pope Leo XIV rebukes Jensen Huang for downplaying AI risks, saying "the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously" (Michael Acton/Financial Times) 30h ↗
• techmeme.com Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing "risk factors", including that its AI may pose "existential risks to humanity" (Financial Times) 30h ↗
• arstechnica.com Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows 42h ↗
• thenextweb.com Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion 43h ↗
• the-decoder.com More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks 45h ↗
• techmeme.com Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is "competition"; Scott Bessent described it as "theft" in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) 47h ↗
• cnbc.com Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' Scott Bessent has called it 'theft' 2d ↗