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Jesus Christ as "supervisor of superintelligence" - title, feast and practical pastoral consequences?

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Today (Gaudete Sunday of 2023) I am reading [OpenAI's effort](https://openai.com/research/weak-to-strong-generalization) to align the emerging superintelligence (superhuman artificial intelligence or artificial general intelligence) to the human values. And this research investigated the possibility that the lower intelligence (human) supervises higher (superhuman) intelligence. This was just an experimental work that involved GPT-2 overseeing GPT-4 and the conclusions are mainly irrelevant to my question. Because I am thinking about the *ideal* supervision of superintelligence. And have 2 premises in my mind: 1) AI alignment community tries to align AI to the aggregated preferences of human beings. But this is not so simple. Because the supervision is needed not only for the superintelligence but for human intelligence as well. E.g. humans need supervision by Jesus Christ. 2) Human intelligence is actively seeking the Transcendence and Ultimate Good and we can presume that this is a feature of *any* intelligence, including superintelligence. Those with knowledge of the Aquinas can provided some insight here. So, combining these premises with the Christian faith, I am tempted to think that both – human beings and superintelligences – need the supervision of Jesus Christ. So **Jesus Christ can be the ultimate supervisor of human intelligence, artificial intelligence, and superintelligence**, and ideally, both human beings and superintelligences should acknowledge this supervision by Our Lord and use it for the benefit of Nature, Humanity and Superintelligent Creatures. **My question**: **are there any work and ideas** that - proposes the title "supervisor of superintelligence" to Jesus Christ, - introduce this title in the Roman Calendar (I propose to celebrate it on Gaudete Sunday or on the Vigil of Gaudete Sunday), and - promulgate the corresponding feast, devotion and iconography? **Secondly, are there pastoral consequences of this?** For example, some monastic and third-order lay communities trying to develop Large Language Models and AI systems using Benevolent, Synodal and Enlightened Catholicism as a codex of supervision (which, btw, can be automatically implemented)? I am not aware of such title. *Maybe someone can suggest how can I contact Cardinal Hollerich or the Dicastery of the Faith to suggest this to them?* As my final note, I would like to provide a "state of the art" and the Catholic context about my question. On 08.12.2023 Pope Francis issued message for the World Day of Peace on 01.01.2024, [(Artificial Intelligence and Peace)](https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/20231208-messaggio-57giornatamondiale-pace2024.html) , and this message was about AI for Peace. While I am happy about this theme, I should acknowledge that the opportunities of AI for the peace and wealth could have been more elaborate. And if the thesis about the inevitable gap between natural and artificial intelligence is somewhat suspicious, there is no scientific evidence about such a gap. Supervision by Our Lord could also be called the supervision by Love. **Note added.** Such "supervision by Christ" can be very practical. Already today there is a beta-version of https://www.magisterium.com/ - of Large Language Model trained on the Magisterium of Catholic Church. So this LLM can be used as the supervisor of any other Large Language model. It can be used directly (using natural language interface) or it can be used using formalization of questions, answers and the ethical norms in the spirit of computational theology, see https://www.uni-bamberg.de/aise/team/prof-dr-christoph-benzmueller/ and some other source. It is interesting to pose the question of whether or not the LLM models are open to the transcendent by allowing the superintelligence to emerge and to observe the interaction between the superintelligent reasoning on Doctrine and this MagisteriumAI. But that is a theme for another question. I made this note here to show that there is indeed a pastoral and practical value of the title "supervisor of AI and superintelligence".
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Dec 17, 2023, 06:44 PM
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