Karen Hao

And I would recommend my favorite piece of writing about AI that has come out recently is actually from Pope Leo XIV with his encyclical that just came out this week.

They use much AI in the Vatican.

They actually have been studying and trying to develop a position on AI for, I think, at least several years, if not up to a decade at this point.

Yeah.

So they're actually really sophisticated on these issues.

Exactly.

No, it's the most fascinating thing.

So Pope Leo XIV, I don't know if people remember, chose his papal name Leo as a callback, as specifically a reference to AI, because Pope Leo XIII was the pope during the Industrial Revolution.

And when this pope came into his papacy, he said...

you know, AI is going to be a new kind of industrial revolution where we will have to grapple as a society with this kind of profound technological change.

And so he came out with his first encyclical this week.

It's called Magnifica Humanitas.

My Latin's not great.

But it basically is, you know, we see so much rhetoric about AI from the companies.

That's

painted in this very like commercial sheen.

We see so much from politicians that makes it seem like this very revolutionary kind of rhetoric.

But what the Catholic Church has done is they're now talking just about AI as in like through a moral lens.

Like, what are we actually trying to do as a

And Pope Leo XIV reminds us it's to uphold human dignity, to make sure that everyone is able to live a dignified life.