FYI #130
Magnifica Humanitas, encyclical letter by Pope Leo XIV on ‘safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence’
How Anthropic used AI ethics slop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI, by Brian Merchant, via Blood in the Machine
Aboriginalia Appeal, Donate your Aboriginalia to help artist Tony Albert smash stereotypes one souvenir at a time, via the MCA
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, by Julie Phillips, via 4Columns
AI’s empty head can see only the apple, review of Trevor Paglen’s book, How to See Like a Machine, by Alex Park, via Oakland Review of Books
Lea Ypi: Dignity, Fiction, and the Lives History Erases, via The Shakespeare and Company Interview
Endless creepy yellow corridors, 30bn TikTok views - and now a Hollywood film, via BBC. Backrooms, directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, via A24