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Lance Ulanoff

'Technology is never neutral': the Pope says the quiet part out loud, and it's time we accept that AI and tech's failures — and dangers — are human-made

Pope Leo amongst phones.

Technology is so pervasive that it's often simultaneously sold as the cure for all ills and the source of everyone's problems. Most rational people — including, it seems, the Pope — don't believe this.

In his recent Papal Encyclical, the relatively new Pope Leo wrote extensively about the threats artificial Intelligence poses to humanity, but also buried among the 42,300 words was this:

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