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some more context around the Vatican AI working group bsky.app/profile/abeb...
abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · Aug 4
so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,
October 31, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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It sounds like Pope Leo is able to see through their nonsense:

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Which makes me wonder why the Vatican keeps inviting that particular crowd.
abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 4d
And the best part of the day: the speech of Pope Leo XIV: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
First, the future of artificial intelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications (cf. nos. 97, 104). The decisive question, then, is not simply “What can AI do?” but rather, “What purpose should it serve?” Those who regard its development merely as a race to be won risk focusing exclusively on the finish line, forgetting those who are left behind. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
October 31, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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November 3, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Imagine doing the electoral map like this?

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November 5, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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forse ti può interessare:
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 4d
Our working group had the second gathering at the Vatican yesterday

Much of the discussion took place under the Chatham House Rule. Below, I share some of the points from the meeting, in the hope of informing others about some of the dominant themes of discussion
abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · Sep 23
I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities

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November 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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😈 Millie teases, denies, then finally lets go in 'Elegant Student'.

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November 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Source: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-crime/2026-10-03/ty-article/.premium/they-told-me-to-take-my-clothes-off-jaffa-priest-recounts-police-abuse/000001a1-0306-d1c4-abeb-737624280000

Full: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67941231

#Israel #Zionist #GazaGenocide
November 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · Jul 14
"Ireland's Enterprise Minister Peter Burke attended a private dinner with tech giant Meta at the US ambassador’s residence in February to discuss the “digital agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency,” amid a US drive to soften Europe’s policing of big tech." www.independent.ie/business/min...
October 28, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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«Será por sabio que no entendió
que el hambre engorda solo al que hambreó» www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBEb...
Jose Larralde - Quien Me Enseñó - En Vivo Badìa y Cìa
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October 29, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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スーダン軍が市場をドローン攻撃──少なくとも36人死亡、150人負傷 スーダン・南ダルフール州 https://article.auone.jp/3c7bd686-e532-47b9-abeb-4ef602359fa4
スーダン軍が市場をドローン攻撃──少なくとも36人死亡、150人負傷 スーダン・南ダルフール州
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October 29, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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How are we designing ourselves?

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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20d
"The triumph of AI will be a crime against humanness. It will bottle our brains in formaldehyde. It will destroy the world as we know it. The men who promote it and profit from it are cognisant of this, and have already made arrangements to exit into another realm."
October 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · Sep 22
well, today in a class of ~150 CS students, only a few raised hands when asked if they trust AI 🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️
adrianweckler.bsky.social Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · Sep 22
Ireland moves up to 3rd globally for use of AI (1st in Europe) -- per new global Microsoft study

Saints and slop? Or peak productivity?
October 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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and here

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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"Ireland's AI adoption is growing fast. You just need to keep doing what you're doing, faster" Sarah Frier of OpenAI at the International AI Summit talking about "Growth and Opportunity in the Intelligence Age"
October 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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and here

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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"Trust with international partners is important to unlock the full potential of AI technology.

Innovation is key to competitiveness and economic growth"

Minister Niamh Smyth TD
October 14, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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and here

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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"Microsoft has played a key role in defending Ukraine even when our governments failed to step us" Brad Smith, Microsoft talking about the technology Microsoft provides in the ongoing war

(He receives a massive applause)
October 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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collecting the #AISUMMITIE threads in one place

Here's one
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD

(fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE
October 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Here's the real deal.
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"Today's AI summit brings together businesses, governments and civil society together" Minister Peter Burke TD

(fact: there are no civil society representatives, not in the list of speakers) #AISummitIE
October 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Also, please consider warnings from these academics et al, regarding AI: @abeba.blacksky.app & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

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Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. https://www.wired.com/story/one-of-ais-fiercest-critics-says-all-the-doom-talk-is-meant-to-distract-us/
October 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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October 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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The whole of the education service in ireland is on strike today. Yet we have the Minister for Further and Higher Ed at an AI conference comparing ireland to the Dark Empire. Am hello, Corporate Capture much !!!

#speirgorm #strike

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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"We consider ourselves to be the silicon valley of Europe.

We have established a gateway between Europe and US.

It's not time to slow down or stop. It is time to accelerate AI"

Minister James Lawless TD (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)

#AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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great news, guys: AI agents are apparently going to give us money to spend this year

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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21d
"Thanks to AI agents, your Christmas shopping is about to get a lot easier" Eileen O’Mara, Stripe ##AISUMMITIE
October 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Abeba has some interesting ideas on the use of AI that got distilled down into a flowchart. There's also a longer blog post.
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27d
we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it

blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-...

pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...
October 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
hex.ooo
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25d
the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei

we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds

Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Yet we disagree robots should be treated as ‘slaves’. In defense of her position, Bryson states: “But surely dehumanization is only wrong when it’s applied to someone who really is human?” Our position would be that ‘dehumanization’ is not so much wrong for robots, it is impossible. One cannot dehumanize something that wasn’t human to begin with. If one uses the term slave, one implicitly assumes that the being one so names is the kind of being can be ‘dehumanized’. One has already implicitly ‘humanized’ the robot, before subsequently enslaving it. One should obviously not enslave someone first taken to be human.
October 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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oh also with these new experiences with the tech under my belt I'm more convinced than before this take is correct
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · Sep 19
“our ai broke out and hacked some organisations” = "we failed to set up appropriate safeguards, failed to continuously monitor our experiments, and ignored a basic principle of reinforcement learning: if hacking gets rewarded, the system learns to hack"
October 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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abeba.blacksky.app Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28d
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable

holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
October 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM