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Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Osvaloshan and this is The Week in Tech, where I'm joined by the

most plugged-in reporters to break down what's really happening in tech right now. Today we're

joined by Natasha Tiku, tech reporter for The Washington Post, and Kyle Cheaker, who writes the

Infinite Scroll Newsletter for The New Yorker. And later on the episode, we're going to be joined by Chris Giamali, host of the podcast

Superhuman, which I'm proud to say is part of the kaleidoscope network.

He's been in Las Vegas, a Memorial Day weekend, to attend the enhanced games or the

steroid Olympics.

But Natasha, I want to start with you and the 42,000 word papal encyclical titled

On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, all caps, mind I add.

Let's play a brief clip and then talk about what's happening here.

Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word is strong, I know, but deliberately

chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences,

and indicating paths forward for humanity.

Natasha, what do we need to know about this story?

Well, this is a very small snippet of a very long encyclical,

a word that I did not know a month ago.

This has been a highly anticipated treaties of sorts from the Pope who had chosen his name based on a previous Pope who had given something similar around the Industrial Revolution.

So, you know, the tech world has been expecting something like this. The Catholic world, I'm assuming, has also been expecting something like this. But obviously, I'm, I'm more

plugged into one than the other. And people were very surprised to also see that the Pope was

joined on stage by a co-founder from Anthropic, Chris Ola, who runs their mechanistic interpretability

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