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Magnifica Humanitas, a Missed Opportunity?
At nearly 43,000 words, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” is a sprawling effort to array the...
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
In December last year, the autonomous robotaxi firm Waymo took a notable victory lap. The occasion was an independent analysis of Waymo’s safety record based on data from nearly...
The Threat of Artificial Intelligence
The technologies referred to as “artificial intelligence” or “AI” are more momentous than most people realize. Their impact will be at least equal to, and may well exceed, that...
