After the Lord sent a great flood to rid the world of evil, people gathered in Babylonia and began baking bricks'a recent advancement. In those days all humans spoke the same language, and they used those bricks to build a tower that embodied their limitless ambitions. And so the Lord imposed a panoply of tongues, thereby deterring the creation of any new technology that might aspire to divine power and glory. The Lord may have delayed such technologies, but he didn't preempt them entirely. The Vatican's recently released 250-page encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas''magnificant humanity''has been hailed as the first official Catholic document to wrestle with AI. But rather than deal strictly with its hazards, the letter, signed by Pope Leo XIV, has two overarching purposes: first, to defend humanity against those who have grown jaded about our shared nature and existence, and second, to warn society about the threats posed by the temptation to outsource human capabilities to...
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