Christopher Hale

But we shouldn't be afraid of our limitations.

St.

Augustine famously says that

My shortcomings, by the way, St.

Augustine's a patron of Pope Leo XIV.

He says that my shortcomings actually give honor to God because what it does is it proves the need for a redeemer, a savior.

Let me put it in more blunt terms.

We can't save ourselves.

I think if Pope Leo thought there was an original sin of Silicon Valley, it's that Silicon Valley at its worst thinks it is God or that it can recreate God.

Sure.

I think on the first, I will say that I think Leo views this as a side issue, truly, in terms of he really cares about the practical first and foremost.

But what you're referring to, I mean, we know Anthropic gathered 15 faith leaders in March and asked the question, is Claude a child of God?

The very short answer from Catholicism, from Christianity writ large, is that…

The inviolable dignity of the human person is unmeasurable.

A better way of putting it, people always, you hear that phrase, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

It's actually a Christian idea.

The wholeness of what it means to be a human cannot be measured or recreated entirely.

in a lab.

It is a theological claim.

It is a religious claim.