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The Pope Slams Silicon Valley

His "Magnifica Humanitas" is a real piece of scholarship — a sophisticated and subtle analysis of our tech-dominated moment. Is this the moral dawn of A.I.?

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.

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. …

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