Source: Law & Liberty
by John-Paul Heil
“Pope Leo XIV has evil on his mind. Following in his predecessor’s footsteps, the first American pontiff remains deeply concerned with the problems facing modernity. While his initial comments about AI, couched within the context of his choice of papal name, have received significant and insightful attention, the Pope seems to view artificial intelligence as emblematic of a larger second Industrial Revolution, which risks degrading the inherent dignity of the human person. His comments remind us of Leo XIII’s critique of communism and unchecked consumptive labor practices during the first Industrial Revolution. Dehumanizing cultural forces can only exist within a world that has more broadly rejected an adequate anthropology of the human being as rational and free, male and female, created for and only fulfilled by a complete and total gift of self to another.” (07/04/25)