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Fringey Mini: 404: Benanti not found · Journey to the Fringe

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  Ok Chelsea, with this fringy mini I'm going to
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  give you an option but not based on like what
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  you think the topic is. Based purely on the source.
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  Ok. Now we can choose. As long as I get a choice.
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  You can choose between PCGamer .com and Popular
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  Mechanics. PCGamer. Ok. I don't know why I'm
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  intrigued. Never heard of it before. This article
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  is posted on September 19th, 2025 on PCGamer
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  .com written by Rich Stanton. Article title,
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  Pope Leo refuses to authorize an AI Pope and
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  declares the technology quote, an empty cold
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  shell that will do great damage to what humanity
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  is about. I'm sorry. Why is PCGamer covering
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  this? It's a great question. I was not expecting
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  that. And did Friar Bernardi release this? Does
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  PC Gamer even know that we need his opinion on
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  this? Well, you got to assume Friar Bernardi
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  is the source for PC Gamer. I would hope. If
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  there any sort of decent journalistic thing,
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  they got Friar Bernardi's opinion. Okay, let's
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  hear it. I look forward to this. So Pope Leo
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  XIV has rejected an idea of an AI Pope saying
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  in an interview with biographer Eloise Allen
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  that, quote, If there's anybody who should not
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  be represented by an avatar, I would say the
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  Pope is high on the list, end quote. Pope Leo,
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  who is forthright about his views on the new
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  technology, also said that he had been asked
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  for his authorization to create an AI Pope. Someone
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  recently asked authorization to create an artificial
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  me so that anybody could sign on to this website
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  now. personal audience with the Pope, end quote,
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  said the pontiff. Quote, this artificial intelligence
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  pope would give them answers to their questions
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  and I said I'm not going to authorize that, end
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  quote. Pope Leo has previously said that he chose
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  the name Leo partially as a tribute to Pope Leo
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  III, the 19th century pope best known for rarum
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  novarum, a treatise on the exploitation of the
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  working class during the Industrial Revolution.
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  Interesting. That's where I know I'm from. Yeah,
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  yeah of course. Now in one of his first addresses
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  to Cardinals Pope Leo said AI is quote another
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  Industrial Revolution and quote. I'm starting
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  to like Pope Leo. It was all in the name Yeah,
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  yeah in his latest interview the Pope returns
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  to the themes of human rights and dignity quote
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  If we automate the whole world and only a few
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  people have the means with which to more than
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  just survive But to live well have meaningful
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  lives. There's a big problem a huge problem coming
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  down the line and quote said Pope Leo The Holy
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  Father worries about quote, extremely rich people
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  who are investing in artificial intelligence,
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  but totally ignoring the value of human beings
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  and of humanity, end quote. He also adds quote,
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  if the church doesn't speak up or if someone
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  doesn't speak up about that, but the church certainly
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  needs to be one of the voices here. The danger
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  is that the digital world will go on its own
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  and we will become pawns or left by the wayside,
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  end quote. The Pope says he's not against progress
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  or new technology, but basically doesn't like
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  the way things are going. Quote. I think to lose
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  that relationship will leave science as an empty,
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  cold shell that will do great damage to what
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  humanity is about. And the human heart will be
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  lost in the midst of the technological development,
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  as things are going right now," end quote. Popplio
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  is clearly up for the fight against Big Tech,
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  and his remarks echo some of his previous statements.
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  I particularly enjoyed when he called AI a threat
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  to, quote, human dignity, justice, and labor,
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  end quote. Heck, he even sees Pokemon as an article
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  we could read apparently outside of this. I'm
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  not looking to convert anytime soon, but I'm
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  certainly listening. End of story, end of article.
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  Chelsea, what do you think? I wouldn't usually,
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  like, not the devil or anything. I wouldn't usually,
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  like, side with the Pope. I don't do a lot of
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  reading about the Pope or what he's interested
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  in. But I think he makes a good point on this
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  one. And you know, with all this stuff going
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  on with AI, I think in the future, human creativity
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  is going to be something that's more and more.
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  Not for a while, because AI is in its infancy
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  right now. We're undervaluing human creativity
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  at this point. Yes. Because the other side's
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  so novel. Not only that, but for ease because,
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  you know, it can make things sound so much better
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  so easily. So you don't have to work as hard.
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  Yeah, human creativity is almost going to be
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  a thing of luxury for the rich. Yes. So it's
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  losing that even when you get the AI. generated
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  music and everything and you get people talking
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  about professors saying they're battling people
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  using AI more and more and it's getting more
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  and more undetectable. In five, ten years maybe,
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  creativity and the humanity in writing is really
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  going to be that much more desirable I think
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  when AI becomes so deeply ingrained because obviously
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  it's going to take off a lot more from here.
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  We're going to see, even now just with the explosion
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  of it, you see it everywhere. So I think he's
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  right in that. I think along the same lines of
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  that, you need to keep some of the stuff away
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  from AI. Obviously, they're going to take it.
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  It's going to explode more from here. But I've
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  listened to a few podcasts on where AI is going
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  and the implications of AI on society. And there's
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  never going to be anything that's quite going
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  to, especially with AI going to be a replacement
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  for what What a human brain can come up with
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  and create. Yeah, problems really going to be
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  with AI and we're probably going a bit long in
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  the fringy mini So I will just kind of leave
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  this comment where it's at is that the question
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  is not whether or not it can replace a human
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  at this point it's a question of whether or not
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  managers and shareholders are willing to believe
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  it can reasonably replace humans at its current
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  state which the answer is yes because it's gonna
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  up their profits because they're not gonna be
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  paying a human being to do that and use their
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  brain which is scary thing. Yes. And that is
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  another form of late stage capitalism. And I
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  think that may be a little bit too deep for this
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  fringy mini. And I must also say PCGamerJournalism
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  .com. Where the hell's Friar Banati? and i was
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  gonna say i don't we can't use this source again
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  because they didn't do their due diligence and
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  at least get to even though the poke talks on
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  pokemon didn't make comment and the next article
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  i could read is about the poke add it to the
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  next fringy mini add it to the list camera how
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  did they score this exclusive interview with
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  No, they didn't. They talked from the article
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  from biographer Eloise Allen, who's at Crux now,
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  taking the Catholic pulse. It all makes sense
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  now. Okay, and with that, let's give our thoughts
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  out to you. Try a brunetti. Go. Try a brunetti.
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  Do it. That's for us. Exactly. We can't. We got
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  to remain impartial. Anyhow, bye.