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Terence Corcoran: The Pope on AI 'slavery' versus liberation

New book indirectly challenges Pope Leo's fearful authoritarian approach to new technology

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With his 43,000-word encyclical on the rising risks lurking in new technology and artificial intelligence, Pope Leo XIV has generated a global outpouring of supportive commentary and  alarmist fear-mongering on the threat AI poses to humanity. Titled “Magnifica Humanitas: On safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligence,” the encyclical portrays AI as a dangerous imposition on humanity by market monopolists and others with authoritarian tendencies.

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Dozens of now standard themes about the threat of AI are raised in the encyclical, along with dozens of new extreme comparisons, often with religious associations. In one section, the Pope compares AI with the imposition of slavery. “The fight against new........

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