A.I. Epicenter, technologists dismiss Pope Leo's warnings about new technologies

On Monday, when Pope Leo company.

As Leo urged corporate executives, government regulators and other citizens around the world to protect humanity from the dangers of AI, he included Mr. Ola as a symbol of the dialogue he hopes to foster between leaders of the spiritual and technological worlds.

But for Jeremy Nixon, Monday's Vatican meeting showed that the two worlds are not at all aligned. The Pope is an A.I. Mr. Nixon, a well-connected figure in the Bay Area's AI frenzy, was fundamentally not human. At the scene, it was argued that Mr. Ola's remarks seemed to imply opposition.

“They’re not talking,” Nixon said in an interview with A.G.I. House, a “hacker house” in San Francisco with deep connections to many of the people who helped create AI. Technologies discussed in papal encyclicals. “Their perspectives are different.”

The difference between humanist views on the risks of AI and technologists' dreams of what AI could become is something that has long been debated in Mr. Nixon's community. “That’s why communities exist,” Mr. Nixon said. “That is the fundamental purpose.”

Mr. Nixon, 33, is one of the founders of A.G.I. House is named after Silicon Valley's pursuit of 'Artificial General Intelligence' - a hypothetical machine that can do anything the human brain can do.