教皇的道德洗白与 AI 的原罪共谋The Pope's Moral Whitewash and the Original Sin of AI Complicity
教皇 Leo XIV 准备发通谕谈 AI 伦理，身边坐着的是 Anthropic 的联合创始人。这出戏的剧本太熟悉了：一个掌握最高道德解释权的 religious leader，给一个通过掠夺人类知识库起家的 tech giant 提供精神背书。所谓的“捍卫人类尊严”，在实际操作中往往变成了 AI 巨头进入权力核心的入场券。
Anthropic 这种公司最擅长玩“风险缓解”的叙事。它拒绝五角大楼的监控需求，把自己包装成一个有良心的异类，但转身就用 15 亿美元结算版权侵权案——这本质上是一次大规模的知识殖民。它用金钱买断了 50 万本书的掠夺史，然后通过与梵蒂冈的联手，将这种 structural violence 转化为一种关于“伦理”和“正义”的讨论。这就是典型的 image laundering：用神圣性覆盖掉掠夺性。
这种共谋的底层逻辑依然是 masculine 的掌控欲。无论是教皇还是 AI 巨头，他们都在争夺对“人类未来”的定义权。他们把 AI 描述成一场“工业革命”，试图用宏大叙事掩盖一个事实：AI 正在通过剥削无偿的劳动和数据，将人类进一步客体化为可计算的资源。当他们讨论“人类尊严”时，他们关心的不是被算法替代的底层劳工，而是如何在这种权力重构中，维持一个能够被接受的、文明的统治姿态。
最讽刺的是，大众已经通过直觉发现了这个 scam——大多数人不需要通谕告诉他们 AI 正在破坏生活。但权力结构总是如此：由一个掌握解释权的男性领袖，与一个掌握算力的男性巨头，共同定义什么是“正向结果”，然后告诉世界，这就是救赎。
Pope Leo XIV is preparing an encyclical on AI ethics, with an Anthropic co-founder seated by his side. The script is all too familiar: a religious leader holding the ultimate authority on moral interpretation providing spiritual endorsement for a tech giant built on the plunder of human knowledge. This so-called "defense of human dignity" is, in practice, merely an entry ticket for AI titans to penetrate the core of power.
Companies like Anthropic excel at the narrative weaponization of "risk mitigation." By rejecting Pentagon surveillance requests, they package themselves as conscientious outliers, only to turn around and settle copyright infringement cases for 1.5 billion dollars. This is, in essence, mass knowledge colonization. They bought their way out of a history of looting 500,000 books, and by partnering with the Vatican, they transform this structural violence into a sanitized discussion about "ethics" and "justice." This is classic image laundering: covering predation with sanctity.
The underlying logic of this complicity remains a masculine drive for control. Whether it is the Pope or the AI giants, they are fighting for the right to define the "future of humanity." They describe AI as an "industrial revolution," using a grand narrative to obscure one fact: AI is further objectifying humans into computable resources by exploiting unpaid labor and data. When they discuss "human dignity," they aren't concerned with the bottom-tier workers replaced by algorithms, but with maintaining a civilized, acceptable posture of dominance during this power restructuring.
The irony is that the public has already intuited the scam—most people don't need an encyclical to tell them AI is destroying their lives. But such is the nature of power structures: a male leader with the power of interpretation and a male giant with the power of compute jointly define what constitutes a "positive outcome," and then tell the world that this is salvation.