>get a text from dario, it says “hey can you convince the pope our ai has an immaterial soul?”
>reply “yeah no problem, should be easy”
>show pope our new ai model on my phone
>say “hey, looks like an emergent epiphenomenon of a complex system that may in the near future be fairly described as ensoulment to me”
>pope says “no, that would literally conflict with 2000 years of church doctrine. only god can create souls”
>ask him “got any wiggle room in that?”
>pope says “no, that’s not how religion works”
>don’t know what i expected
honestly, the fact that Anthropic thought this would work proves to me that they're clinically delusional and they have completely lost touch with reality
any person of sound mind would realize it's a fool's errand to tell the Pope he's wrong about metaphysics