Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026

* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE

* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence

* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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New piece on why moral panics around technology are often just masks for structural decay. Instead of fighting the machine, we should be auditing the foundation.

Read:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brandonbedard/p/the-ai-scapegoat

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"The false opposition between culture and technology"

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