In Nathan Fielder’s new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the audience enters a hall of mirrors.
Technology
Posted inOf Many Things
How to worry about A.I. without despairing
You’re probably worried about A.I. for the wrong reasons—or at least not all of the reasons.
Posted inNews Analysis
What Pope Leo has said about an ‘A.I. pause’
Pope Leo XIV was talking about an “A.I. pause” long before this recent pandemonium.
Posted inNews
Pope Leo warns technology cannot replace the value of human relationships
To build a just world, he said, people must move beyond an “individualistic mindset” and invest in human relationships with substance and depth.
Posted inShort Take
‘Sorry, I don’t have any cash’: How our cashless society is hurting the poor
The digital economy excludes millions of poor and other vulnerable citizens who still depend on cash.
Posted inPoetry
Liturgy in the Glow
I imagine the algorithms
as monks in long habits,
praying at impossible speed,
Posted inOf Many Things
Reading: It’s good for your soul
Reading well requires an act of trust to step into a world of words and thought that we did not create for ourselves. Christians: take note.
Posted inShort Take
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.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Will AI make you happy?
Lessons in misery and bliss from a roller coaster and a rafting trip
Posted inFaith and Reason
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.