I believe you're misattributing - that was one of the rabbi's points, not the Pope's.
Nonsense. Pope never said anything of the sort. Show me one quote where he endorses the personhood of AI.
Anthropic has been putting the clamps on the Pope trying to get that endorsement. This seems to be a continuation.
It’s called conditional logic. IF Anthropic is right THEN they are slave owners. You don’t need to agree with Anthropic to state that proposition.
Conditional logic doesn't work when talking to the general public. Either way, still waiting for the pope quote.
Conditional logic works just fine!
No, because in a social context, for people who understand implied intent and implied beliefs instead of just on-its-face logical propositions, it is an admission that the antecedent has a reasonable chance of being true. In social communication, if you don't believe something is possible, you simply dismiss any conditional statements following from it. Dispassionately arguing in a logical and objective manner is only possible for a tiny sliver of the population. The rest will get very angry and uncomfortable around such talk.
It wasn’t the pope, but it is
mentioned by I think a rabbi in the article. He relates telling Olah if he thinks models are conscious he should be fighting the South, freeing the slaves.