After my appearance on Chicago’s Morning Answer this week to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence, I found myself returning to a question that sits at the center of my work on systemic change.
Can human beings get in front of a transition before catalysts force them to act? That question matters because the Pope’s encyclical is not really about whether artificial intelligence is good or bad. It is about whether human beings remain responsible for the systems they build. It is about whether a technology powerful enough to reshape work, learning, truth, war, institutions, and human identity will be guided by human dignity, or whether it will quietly inherit the priorities of speed, profit, power, and efficiency.
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