The Pope’s AI warning comes at just the right time
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NY MAG — The tech industry has done a great deal of pontificating lately, and it was only a matter of time until the actual pontiff showed up. “Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice,” writes Pope Leo XIV in the first encyclical of his tenure, titled Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. “Either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.”
Pope Leo sets out to do two main things here. The first is to walk through and reaffirm much of the church’s social doctrine, with rhetorical updates for the age of AI.
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