@harnidhk did not have “the Pope writes 2026’s most polarising AI critique” on my bingo card but here we are. comment POPE and I’ll send the full thing to your DMs.
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The creator announces that the Pope has released a new encyclical detailing the Vatican's official stance on AI. She explains the significance of an encyclical, notes this is the new Pope's first one, and provides historical context by comparing it to past encyclicals on climate change and industrial capitalism. The creator then introduces the document's core themes, which are framed around two biblical stories: the Tower of Babel and Pentecost.
The pope just released a massive document on the Vatican's official stance on AI, and we should talk about it.
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did not have “the Pope writes 2026’s most polarising AI critique” on my bingo card but here we are. comment POPE and I’ll send the full thing to your DMs.
[pope leo xiv, magnifica humanitas, ai ethics, ai criticism, tech criticism, ai labor, ai alignment, data colonialism, vatican on ai, ai and capitalism, encyclical, tower of babel, babel syndrome, laudato si]
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ENCYCLICAL LETTER
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The pope just released a massive document on the Vatican's official stance on AI, and we should talk about it. Pope Leo the fourteenth just dropped a new encyclical, which is the highest form of papal teaching. It's a letter from the pope to the entire world, not just Catholics, and it lays out the church's official position on something that matters. When a pope writes one, it's a big deal. And this is his first one, which means that this is the issue he's chosen to define his entire papacy by. The last famous one most people would know about is Pope Francis's Laudato Si. This one is called Magnifica Humanitas. And the new pope, Leo fourteenth, took his name from Leo the thirtieth, who, in 1981, wrote the famous encyclical about factory workers and industrial capitalism. This is Leo saying, AI is our version of that fight. And the whole document hinges on two stories from the Bible. First, the Tower Of Babel. A group of people decide to build a tower all the way up to the heavens using one language and one shared project, all to make a name for themselves. The whole thing