Massimo Faggioli

A famous political leader who was running for election in 1928 famously asked, what the hell is an encyclical?

Right now, there's no question that those in the Trump administration, they know what's an encyclical and that Pope Leo is writing about this.

And so I remember when Pope Francis published Laudato Si' on the environment,

We saw in some important business-friendly newspapers preemptive editorials saying this encyclical will be communist, will be globalist, and so on.

I expect something similar to come even before this encyclical of Poplio on AI will be published.

I think will be a clash of ideas and a vision on the world.

And there's one level of immediate political clash.

But I think there's on the horizon something bigger because even China, even India is affected by this.

And so this is not just an intra-Western conversation.

This is much bigger.

But you're right.

They will read that encyclopedia very carefully, I think, in Silicon Valley and their allies.