Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Thanks, Flora, for having me.

Yes, I want to start by saying this is a magnificent document.

The metaphoric order, the Tower of Babel, the idea of disarming a technology in the service of humanity.

So I think it's an act of courage to put himself at the center

of a debate where so much is unknown, so much magical thinking saturates.

And I think that what you really should think about, Flora, is this was such an American way of introducing an encyclical.

The popes write this and they let the others do the work.

This is a hands-on, very pragmatic, and this is a uniquely American story.

It's a story of our pope from Chicago that shows the release of the encyclical in very unique ways.

Really, I think the way the Holy Father rolled out the encyclical was uniquely American.

He did it personally.

One issue is that he had a number of personalities very, very carefully chosen.

Of course, among them, the co-founder of Anthropic, a company that is at the global epicenter of a debate about the futures of artificial intelligence.

For I think this telecasts a claim that in previous moments when momentous encyclicals were released, the issues were often issues that came under the general responsibilities of the state, of the nation state, of governments.

I think that what this is highlighting

the fact that now it's in the hands of private companies that are building, engineering a future in which we're all going to be actors.

Very directly.

By having the co-founder of one of the major AI companies, he's telling the world, take notice.

Take notice.

Yes.