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FULL SPEECH: Anthropic Co-Founder Warns AI Could Replace Human Jobs “At Very Large Scale” | AI1G

Anthropic Co-Founder Chris Olah warned that artificial intelligence could displace human labor “at very large scale” as he addressed the Vatican during the presentation of Pope Leo’s first encyclical on AI. The Anthropic co-founder urged stronger oversight from governments, religious leaders, and civil society, while raising concerns about AI’s growing power, global inequality, and mysterious internal behaviors observed in advanced systems.

Anthropic Co-Founder Warns AI Could Replace Human Jobs “At Very Large Scale”
Chris Olah Sounds Alarm Over AI Risks During Major Vatican Address.
“AI Could Displace Human Labour” — Anthropic Founder Issues Stark Warning.

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Live from Vatican City: Pope Leo participates in the presentation of his first major encyclical focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, marking a rare break from papal tradition.
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Iain McGilchrist — Can AI Become Conscious?

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AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to AI going rogue and harming humanity. We explore diverse views; we argue that AI consciousness depends on theories of consciousness.

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Iain McGilchrist FRSA is a British psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Feeling angry makes people more likely to share news from low-credibility sources

The second experiment involved 116 university students and focused specifically on comparing moral anger and moral disgust. Participants read 18 false news headlines that described minor or severe moral violations. This time, the headlines were presented as coming from either a highly credible source or a low credibility source.

The scientists wanted to see how different emotional states influenced the sharing of these headlines. They asked the students to rate their current feelings of anger, their feelings of disgust, or their neutral attention. After this emotional prompt, the students rated their willingness to share the news.

The researchers found that participants prompted to feel anger were significantly more willing to share headlines from low credibility sources compared to the disgust and control groups. The disgust prompt did not increase sharing willingness compared to the neutral control group. This suggests that moral anger actively reduces a person’s reliance on credibility when deciding to share information.

The AI Paradox: Cure or Poison?

Technology promised simplicity. It delivered complexity.

AI promised resolution. It is delivering acceleration.

The paradox is not a bug. It is the feature. And the question is what we choose to do about it.

This week I published a new essay, It is the argument I have been circling for a decade, finally in one place.

The short version: as AI’s capabilities grow, so do the risks. They are not separate variables. They climb the same curve. A more powerful model can cure more diseases and design more weapons. A smarter agent can book your travel and drain your bank account. Capability is leverage. Leverage is indifferent to ethics.

Every time we raise the ceiling of what AI can do, we raise the floor of what can go wrong.

We still have the how. We are drowning in the what. What we have neglected, almost completely, is the why.

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LOL…not my title! Old picture! But fun interview

For this episode, I’m joined by Rick Tumlinson, co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and one of the most influential figures in the commercial space industry.

In this episode, we slice the conversation into four categories: the social history of the space movement and how we got here; the business of space and the astropolitics shaping who controls the final frontier; the genetics and ethics of humanity becoming a multi-planetary species; and the deeper philosophy of why leaving Earth isn’t just raw and blind ambition but something closer to destiny (for some people).

Timestamps:
0:00 Social History.
30:19 Business and Astropolitics.
45:20 Genetics and Ethics.
56:02 Philosophical.

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Is Big Tech Teaching Machines To Be Conscious? Google Mind’s Move To Hire A Philosopher Raises Eyebrows

The race to build smarter artificial intelligence has taken an unexpected philosophical turn after Google DeepMind quietly hired an in-house philosopher to investigate the potential for machine consciousness…

…DeepMind is now integrating philosophical reasoning directly into its research pipeline rather than treating ethics as an external concern. This move suggests that Big Tech is no longer viewing sentience as a science-fiction trope but as a technical and moral hurdle, thereby witnessing a transition from building tools to questioning the nature of those tools themselves.

The Google DeepMind philosopher role focuses on the machine sentience debate, aiming to define what it means for a digital system to ‘feel’ or ‘experience’

This internal appointment comes at a time when large language models are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from human interlocutors. While most researchers maintain that these systems are mere statistical predictors, the boundary is thinning. The decision to bring a philosopher into the core development team indicates that Google expects its path toward artificial general intelligence to raise profound questions about awareness and machine rights.

Google DeepMind has hired an in-house philosopher to explore the boundaries of machine consciousness and ethics. This move follows years of controversy surrounding AI sentience and the limits of large language models.

The neuroscience of hypocrisy points to a communication breakdown in the brain

Half of the participants received actual stimulation aimed at the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The other half received a fake version of the treatment, known as a sham stimulation. After the procedure, all participants completed the same card game and judgment exercises.

The people who received the real brain stimulation showed a wider gap between their behavior and their judgments. By disrupting the normal function of the brain region, the researchers successfully made people more hypocritical. This proved that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex directly controls moral consistency.

These results suggest that moral consistency is not an automatic trait. It is a biological process that relies on the brain’s ability to sync up different types of information. “Our findings suggest that we should treat moral consistency like a skill that can be strengthened through deliberate decision making,” says senior author Hongwen Song of the University of Science and Technology of China.

A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

That hasn’t stopped some from exploring the idea as part of a secretive effort to realize an alternative to anti-aging tech that sounds like it was ripped straight out of a dystopian science fiction novel. A billionaire-backed stealth startup, called R3 Bio, recently announced that it was raising money to develop non-sentient monkey “organ sacks,” as Wired reported last week, an eyebrow-raising alternative to animal testing. Such structures would contain all typical organs excluding the brain, ultimately serving as a source for donor organs and tissues.

But according to a sprawling followup investigation by MIT Technology Review, R3 Bio’s founders secretly have a far more ambitious goal in mind: creating entire “brainless clones” of the human body that aging or ill individuals could one day transplant their brain into. One advantage of not developing the brain in the donor bodies, albeit a ghoulish one: such a brain-free clone would neatly circumvent certain moral conundrums over the concept.

Still, to call the idea ethically fraught would be a vast understatement. Despite an insider likening a pitch they heard from R3’s founder, John Schloendorn, to a “close encounter of the third kind” with “Dr. Strangelove” in an interview with Tech Review, the company has since distanced itself from the idea of brainless human clones.

Eyal Aharoni — Breaking the Moral Turing Test

Dr. discusses one of the most provocative frontiers in technology: the automation of moral judgement — in his talk focusses on outcomes of a comparative moral Turing test (AI outperforms humans across a range of metrics), as well as AI assisted medical triage!

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Eyal Aharoni

Dr. Eyal Aharoni (Georgia State University) to the Future Day 2026 stage to discuss one of the most provocative frontiers in technology: the automation of moral judgement.

Breaking the Moral Turing Test: Studies of human attribution and deference to AI moral judgment and decision-making.

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