Yesterday the Vatican published Magnifica Humanitas — Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical and the Catholic Church’s official moral teaching on AI.
I woke up at 5am to read it, and it’s remarkable.
The Vatican's Indictment of AI
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Pope Leo’s moral pronouncement on AI is an intense read, and it’s clearly been informed by some of the great investigative scoops in tech journalism. I’ve included a speculative bibliography at the end of this piece — the kind of work I’m imagining may have helped form Leo’s structurally and technically sophisticated analysis.
It names algorithmic systems making decisions about credit, jobs, and welfare benefits. It names data extraction from poor countries as a new form of colonialism. …
