Ben Shapiro

I particularly bridle at some of this stuff because Pope Leo has refused to call out governments.

He's big on government control and centralized oversight in all of this.

But he has been reticent, shall we say, to criticize governments that have slaughtered Christians in Africa, that are slaughtering Christians in the Middle East right now.

He has been extraordinarily shy in condemning Iranian aggression.

He has traveled literally to countries that oppress Christians in order to, I don't even know, try to go along to get along.

And it seems to me that if you are going to demand global rules, then maybe we ought to articulate what those rules look like.

Maybe we ought to articulate what your desired regime would be as opposed to these sort of broad statements that private industry and diffuse dissemination of knowledge is unjust and we need centralized control.

Centralized control always sounds more fun to people and more understandable to people than diffuse knowledge, than lots of people knowing things or the ugliness of competition.

It always sounds better to say, we'll just put this guy in charge and then he'll run it or this group of people in charge.

But that's precisely what you say you're fighting.

And frankly,

The lack of understanding of free market mechanisms and technological development here, I think, is a problem.

I think it's a problem, regardless of whether you speak with the mantle of religious authority or not.

And in some ways, worse, if you're speaking with the mantle of religious authority, but outside your area of expertise.

I think there are lots of places where the Pope's wisdom is useful.

I think when it comes to his questions about how human beings adjust to technological change, all of that is fine and dandy.

But the Pope literally calls for gigantic redistributionist mechanisms here.

He says in this encyclical, while AI promises to boost productivity by taking over mundane tasks, it frequently forces workers to adapt to the speed and demands of machines.

More than ever in the age of AI and robotics, it is no longer possible to rely solely on the invisible hand of the market.

Well, what are we supposed to rely on?