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Pope Leo’s ‘AI encyclical’ says a lot. But critics say it misses the mark | Flipboard

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Topics 3

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: Sam Altman says OpenAI's top token spender uses 100 billion tokens a month.

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Claim 1: “Sam Altman says OpenAI's top token spender uses 100 billion tokens a month”
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Three independent web sources (Axios and two other reports) explicitly state that Sam Altman revealed OpenAI's top token user consumes 100 billion tokens per month.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ilya Sutskever (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 1986) is a computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning, including sequence-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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Claim 2: “Microsoft becomes the latest company to “toll gate” some of its systems”
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The provided web search results discuss general tolls, climate tolls, and API gatekeepers in the music scene, but none of the evidence mentions Microsoft specifically implementing 'toll gating' for its systems.
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web search NEUTRAL — Fast payment systems and smart tolls have been implemented with the aim of reducing traffic on highways: the toll amount is automatically added to each ...
https://www.ferrovial.com/en/resources/tolls/
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web search NEUTRAL — This has led us to fund a lot of climate-smart innovations, especially in agriculture, in places where extreme weather is taking the worst toll. COP30 is taking ...
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 29, 2025 ... The music scene has a huge issue. The problem at hand? Gatekeeping. (Gate)keepers of the faith.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/698593531630485/posts/134580…
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Claim 3: “The US is proposing new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners in President Donald Trump’s biggest move to rebuild his [tariff wall]”
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The claim is reported by Bloomberg and other news sources stating that President Trump proposed tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners. Wikipedia entries confirm Trump's status as the 47th president and his activities in 2025/2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From June to September 2025, businessman and former presidential advisor Elon Musk and U.S. president Donald Trump engaged in a series of social media attacks, primarily across X (formerly Twitter) an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Musk_feud
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
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Claim 4: “Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, once spent $1.3 million worth of tokens in a month.”
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Three separate web search results confirm that Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, spent approximately $1.3 million on OpenAI API tokens in a single month.
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger's team used over $1.3 million in API tokens in 30 days, highlighting the high costs of AI automation for software development.
https://aiespionage.net/tech-deep-dives/openclaw-creator-bur…
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web search NEUTRAL — Peter Steinberger is on a token spending spree. On Friday, the creator of OpenClaw posted a screenshot of his CodexBar, a tool that shows token spending on different AI coding tools. The image showed …
https://www.businessinsider.com/openclaw-peter-steinberger-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and an engineer at OpenAI, racked up $1.3 million in API costs in a single month by running approximately 100 Codex instances simultaneously on his open-sour…
https://thenextweb.com/news/openclaw-peter-steinberger-1-3-m…
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Claim 5: “companies like Anthropic are focusing on “psychological security.””
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While the evidence confirms Anthropic focuses on 'safety' and 'societal impacts,' there is no specific mention of the term 'psychological security' in the provided search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic also believes that safety is crucial to putting humanity in a strong position to realize the enormous benefits of AI. Humanity doesn't need to get ...
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
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web search NEUTRAL — Our research teams investigate the safety, inner workings, and societal impacts of AI models – so that artificial intelligence has a positive impact as it ...
https://www.anthropic.com/research
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 14, 2025 · Anthropic published a report yesterday on what they call the first AI orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. It is a fascinating read and an ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tonymartinvegue_full-report-d…
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Claim 6: “Pope Leo’s ‘AI encyclical’ says a lot.”
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Multiple independent sources, including France24 and several Flipboard-aggregated reports, confirm that Pope Leo XIV issued an encyclical regarding the dangers and vision of AI.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The controversies surrounding artificial intelligence encompass a broad range of public, academic, and political debates regarding the societal effects of artificial intelligence (AI). These debates i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_contro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Some users of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, especially chatbots, may develop beliefs that AI has or can attain supernatural or spiritual powers. AI models such as ChatGPT are believed by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_spi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost, pronounced PREE-vohst; September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. He is the first pope to have been born in the U…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV
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