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.
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JD Vance invokes Pope Leo on AI and warfare in Air Force Academy graduation address
“If the warfare of the future is to live up to the moral values of our ancestors, decisions over life and death must be made by humans and not machines,” Vice President Vance said.
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Interview: What Pope Leo’s apology for the church’s role in slavery means to Black Catholics
“It is not easy to be Black and Catholic in the United States. That’s why, I think, I felt so moved.”
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Where synodality shows up in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
In addition to all it offers us about human dignity in an A.I. age, the pope’s new encyclical also offers a synodal approach to authority that the world beyond the Catholic Church, hungry for a moral voice on this topic, will find compelling.
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Will Pope Leo’s A.I. encyclical produce a Catholic social teaching catchphrase?
With the notion of “disarming A.I.,” Pope Leo primarily means human-made strategies to prevent some of the worst case effects of runaway A.I. on social life and communities. He also means keeping A.I. off battlefields.
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Pope Leo’s A.I. warning: Top takeaways from his groundbreaking first encyclical
This week on a special “Inside the Vatican” roundtable, a discussion of “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo’s groundbreaking first encyclical on protecting the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. Host Colleen Dulle sits down with her co-host and senior Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell, as well as America’s president and editor in chief, Sam Sawyer, S.J.
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Catholic ministry and AI: the risks, limits and opportunities
For many involved in ministry every day, the question of whether to engage with A.I. has already passed. The question that remains is how.