Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warns that AI is becoming a new Tower of Babel. As the son of a preacher man, I know that parable well: human hubris, God-like ambition, and the danger of power without humility. From OpenAI’s safety wars to Anthropic’s rare moral caution, from social media brain rot to AI warfare in Ukraine, the bricks are already going up.
iPINIONS contends that Pope Leo isn’t being alarmist. He’s preaching in the wilderness while tech gods race to build a tower that could scatter humanity itself.
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/pope-leo-warns-ai-is-the-new-tower
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