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The race to AGI-pill the pope | The Verge

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Pope Leo XIV probably isn’t the first person you picture when conversation turns to Artificial General Intelligence doomsday scenarios. But last month, AGI researcher John-Clark Levin found himself inside the Vatican on a mission to put those concerns in front of the pope. Levin hasn’t been acting alone. In the past year, he has been quietly assembling a loose network of roughly three dozen academics, scientists, policy researchers, and priests — a group he half-jokingly calls the “AI Avengers” — who meet virtually to strategize how to get the Vatican thinking more seriously about AI’s more extreme possibilities. Add Verge as a preferred source to see more of our reporting on Google. His main worry is that the pope will take too long to realize the risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a goal pursued by some of the world’s biggest tech companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. “If you wait for perfect certainty, it’s going to be too late to act to stave off the very

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