Dr. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

I think the concern the Holy Father has here is when the human hand, the heart, our socio-emotional architectures are no longer in the driver's seat, please proceed with caution.

Flora, I don't get to lobby in that sense.

The work of the academies is work that responds to the concerns, to the interests of the Holy Father.

It's very, very important to highlight that this encyclical is deeply, deeply rooted in

in the history of the social doctrine of the church.

That's the most anthropological of all the encyclicals, maybe.

And that is, of course, by his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, who wrote during the Industrial Revolution on the need to protect workers, their dignity, and their rights.

It is a plea.

to protect human dignity, and as such, it joins a very, very significant global conversation that has been focused too much, too much on the technological side of the equation, not enough on the human side of the equation.

Yes, you know, I would say that there were three conceptual domains at the heart of AI where most of the passionate, let's call them, exchanges unfolded.

First, what will augment human capabilities, make us all better off, and what will make us redundant, replace us?

I think as importantly here was the issue of the unfolding of these technologies into systems in industry, in governance, into education.

And that is entirely under-theorized.

I think we live in a moment, Flora, of two tensions.

a kind of a techno effervescence that just is everywhere in Silicon Valley.

It's a place of the world I know very well.

I spent time at Stanford.

I spent many years at Berkeley.

So this is a world I understand.

And it's techno panic.