The founder of the Enhanced Games has said that he is “on a mission to build a new superhumanity.” This is precisely what “Magnifica Humanitas” warns against.
Magnifica Humanitas
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Orwell, Asimov and predicting the future of A.I.
Writers like George Orwell and Isaac Asimov—and Pope Leo—remind us that we should never let technology take away our human dignity.
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Did Pope Leo actually reject just war theory? Unpacking what ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ said about the doctrine
‘Magnifica Humanitas’ asks: Is just war theory still relevant?
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A.I. and the human person: A theologian on ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
In “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo draws measured judgments about the features, promises and risks associated with the advanced technology revolution that is rapidly reshaping the ways we communicate, work and govern.
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‘The Social Network’ and ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Warnings against progress at the expense of our humanity
Both the encyclical and the film ask the same question: What role does the human heart play in technological progress?
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A.I. is the headline for ‘Magnifica Humanitas,’ but Catholic social teaching is its spine
The first two chapters of ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ are a masterclass in how the church understands and develops its social teaching.
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Why should anyone listen to what Pope Leo says about AI?
Almost immediately after Pope Leo released “Magnifica Humanitas,” critics asked what the Holy Father could possibly know about a topic as complex as artificial intelligence.
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Why ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ is Pope Leo’s most important action on synodality yet
Leo tells us the the church must bear witness to its own social teaching by becoming a more synodal church.
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When it comes to A.I., the kids (may) be alright
It is also easy to boo huge, faceless forces inexorably inserting A.I. into every facet of our lives against our will. It is harder to reject it when it is something less global but which we actually have the power to reject.
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The dueling A.I. apocalypses—and what Pope Leo has to say about both
No sort of apocalyptic nonsense is quite so pervasive today as what comes from A.I. obsessives—boosters and doomers alike.