Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" are... kinda infuriating and really highlight how broken the AI industry (and hypercapitalism in general) is.

> The first is our duty to the global poor. There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale. If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions. This task will be difficult enough, but I worry most dialogue misses an even harder challenge. AI development is concentrated in a handful of wealthy nations. How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this. It is an unsolved problem, and it is the kind of problem the Church has historically refused to let the world ignore.
> The second is the need for moral imagination and ambition regarding human flourishing. If AI models are going to be widespread, what does it look like for humans, families, and the world to flourish? Today, parents are already worried about their children’s minds; individuals about the future of their work. These are not questions a lab can answer but they are questions traditions like yours have carried for millennia, and we need you to keep carrying them into this new moment in history.

I love (deep sarcasm) the way he's effectively saying, "we know our product could well cause lots of people to lose their jobs. We also know this really should be for the benefit of the entire world if we're going to do it at all. But we're going to just keep pushing ahead anyway, regardless of the consequences, and we don't particularly care to solve this problem ourselves despite our billions of dollars, so we're going to leave it to someone else to figure it out while we rub our hands together and profit." We're expected to feel grateful that they're being so magnanimous by acknowledging that there are real ethical issues here and that they are "thinking" about the "moral imperative". Oh, and they "need" others to solve these problems because the work they're doing is apparently too important for them to be hindered by something so trivial as ethics and their responsibility to humankind. Never mind that they apparently have billions to throw around, but meh, "we don't have a mechanism for this".