Artificial intelligence
Coherence in Continuity – The Catholic Thing
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, was released earlier this week. It is long for an encyclical, and unexpected in some ways. It is worth reading, worth sitting with. What follows is not a summary, still less a “review” of the…
What Christians Get Wrong About AI – Religion & Liberty Online
We have a saying in my field: Don’t take business advice from people who think the business shouldn’t exist. Obvious? Tautological, even? Don’t be so sure. As someone in the world of corporate engagement, talking to the world’s largest companies…
Catholics and “Surveillance Capitalism” – The Catholic Thing
A correct Catholic approach to AI becomes clearer, I think, if we approach a foundational text in Catholic Social Teaching, Rerum novarum, not as about structural issues in political economy, but rather as about claims on time and claims of…
What Was Epstein REALLY Doing? Genetics, Eugenics & Directed Evolution
While much of the attention has focused on Jeffrey Epstein’s grotesque abuse and trafficking of children for sex, he was deeply involved in cutting-edge science involving Artificial Intelligence, DNA, genetics, directed evolution, and more. In…
AI and the Return of Architectonic Labor – Religion & Liberty Online
The free enterprise system’s greatest prophets saw the trade-off from the beginning. The division of labor generates unprecedented wealth while subjecting workers to menial labor that diminishes our personal and political capacities. Artificial…
AI and the Return of Architectonic Labor – Religion & Liberty Online
The free enterprise system’s greatest prophets saw the trade-off from the beginning. The division of labor generates unprecedented wealth while subjecting workers to menial labor that diminishes our personal and political capacities. Artificial…
Karl Stern, AI, the Vocabulary of the Soul
Every day, we encounter articles warning of AI’s future dangers. But is machine learning really the threat? No. As psychiatrist Karl Stern warned 71 years ago in “The Third Revolution,” the core problem is that intellectual elites have spent…
Are AI Enthusiasts Trying to Replace Humanity Altogether?
By The Editors Published on October 24, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvw_aQbjrsU Is there an unnamed force ― which we all feel ― reshaping what it means to be human? In this 68-minute video, Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas is…
Itching for New Foundations – The Catholic Thing
Ask an educated Catholic what the two leading teachings of Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum are, and, if he knows anything at all about this foundational text of modern Catholic social teaching, he will likely say that it endorses labor…