The fictional misanthrope Dr House would often joke that if one could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. Of course, the savant made those observations before Donald Trump became president, an event so catastrophic that it has forced the most openly religious person in the world to act as a voice of reason.
With the democratic powers of his home country electing the presidential version of Pope Alexander VI, a man whose foreign policy is based on nepotistic self-aggrandisement, it has fallen on the first American Pope to provide a moral compass to his countrymen and much of the WENA world. And now, like every manager in every corporate office, he’s also talking about Artificial Intelligence. Thankfully, it’s not with the zest of the corporate honcho who thinks AI can replace all sorts of wasteful workers, so the only ones making money are the CEO and shareholders.
