The pope made the comments during an in-flight press conference on his return trip to Rome from France the evening of Sept. 28.
Magnifica Humanitas
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‘SNL’ and the radical humility of live comedy
‘Saturday Night Live’ is its most human when performers break.
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AFL-CIO president: The significance of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ is ‘absolutely huge’
“When I first read it, I just felt like this could have been a document written by the trade union movement.”
Posted inFaith and Reason
The medieval understanding of intelligence is exactly what we need in the age of A.I.
Exercising restraint in the use of A.I. will require a paradigm shift in how human intelligence is essentially conceived.
Posted inMusic
Being human after AI: Daft Punk, Pope Leo and ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
The more I read “Magnifica Humanitas,” the more I found myself thinking about two French musicians who spent nearly 30 years masquerading as robots.
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When Catholic higher education meets A.I.: We can’t let new technology override moral wisdom
Catholic universities must redouble efforts to help students understand what it means to be truly human, and what qualities cannot be replaced by A.I.
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Paragraph 176 of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ and Pope Leo XIV’s apology for the enslavement of African people
“Pope Leo’s formal apology and plea for forgiveness is long overdue,” Bishop Edward Braxton writes. Is it too late for the pope’s words to have an impact?
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Live Zoom Panel: Analyzing the Impact and Reception of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
Join America Media’s team of experts for an exclusive, subscriber-only event to examine the core issues, public response to and overall impact of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ nearly three months after its publishing.
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A.I. should be free at public libraries
A.I. companies benefit from the work of millions of writers and others who gave no consent. Providing A.I. access to the public is fair compensation.
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What watching the World Cup from Argentina taught me about unity
In a divided world, the World Cup offers a powerful opportunity to foster an inclusive global community.