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Who is AI for and who is it leaving behind?

Those were the central questions of Pope Leo’s first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”).

By addressing the chal...

The moment I stepped out of my car, I heard the screams.

With each step down the dirt and gravel path, they grew louder. Behind a fence of wooden poles and chicken wire, a prone mocha-colored alpaca was tied down on all four limbs like a cartoon character bound to train tracks. The alpaca’s name was Nutmeg, and it was time for her yearly shearing.

Two men with d...

Pope Leo XIV recently cautioned tech developers and political leaders about the potential for exploitation in AI development by comparing the race to create it to the depravity of slavery. His wording was so strong that he even called for AI to be “disarmed.”

In the wake of the pope’s encyclical, Christians around the world have taken a closer lo...

(ANALYSIS) It seemed inevitable that the first encyclical from the first American pope, the forward-looking and worldly-wise Leo XIV, would focus on the growing furor over artificial intelligence.

As reported here...