The pope disrupts Silicon Valley
Unlike the US president, the pontiff is choosing to grapple with the serious challenges of AI
POPE Leo was perturbed.
The speed of change was dizzying. The elements of conflict were unmistakable: the vast expansion of industry, the marvellous discoveries of science, the changing relations between employers and workers, the enormous fortunes being made amid mass poverty and prevailing moral degeneracy.
The gravity of the situation “fills every mind with painful apprehension”, he wrote in his landmark papal encyclical Rerum Novarum (Of New Things) in 1891.
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