By What Authority? Rome's Framework for the Age of AI

Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas opens not with artificial intelligence, but with an argument for why the Catholic Church has the right to speak on it. Before engaging Rome's analysis of AI, Christians must examine the epistemological and ecclesiological framework the encyclical builds — and ask whether it can bear the weight placed upon it.

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