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WILLIAM BENNETT, JON HAGE: AI can mimic a teacher, but it cannot shepherd a soul

The right response to transformative technology is responsible integration

By William J. Bennett , Jon Hage Fox News

Published July 25, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Pope Leo XIV warns Silicon Valley on artificial intelligence regulation

Pope Leo XIV sends a message to Silicon Valley, calling for strong AI oversight to ensure the technology serves the common good. Kurt 'CyberGuy' Knutsson discusses the Vatican's meetings with tech leaders including Meta, Google and Amazon.

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This summer, at the Sun Valley conference, media, tech, business, and cultural leaders gathered to discuss what is on all our minds: artificial intelligence and where it is taking us. We cannot hide from it any longer. AI will play a fundamental role in nearly everything we do, including how our children learn.

It is hard to deny the benefits. AI can tutor a struggling student at midnight, translate a lesson into a dozen languages, and free teachers from paperwork so they can spend more time with the kids in front of them. But that promise must come with caution, especially in education. New tools are never neutral. They amplify whatever values, or lack of them thereof, are already in the classroom.

That caution was underscored twice in recent weeks. The so-called Godfather of AI warned that to protect humanity from the risks it poses, AI must be infused with compassion and virtue. Around the same........

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