Pope Leo diagnoses the dangers of AI but fails to provide the cure
Our veteran computer engineer reviews Pope Leo's 'Magnifica Humanitas' and in Part I agrees that AI is very dangerous.
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Vatican cardinal warns of ‘painful consequences’ from AI ‘deepfakes’
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, addressed concerns about the impact of AI on society before Pope Leo's encyclical is released next week.
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New Orwellian tech mandates for cars will surveil, report drivers
'Your dashboard should not be judge, jury, and executioner,' said U.S. House Rep. Thomas Massie (R—Kentucky).
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Peter Thiel’s Palantir may be ‘the most dangerous company in the world’: here’s why
A Substack commentary explains how Palantir wields an extraordinary amount of power within the Trump administration and throughout the world.
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Sweden rethinks digital learning, returns to ‘old-fashioned’ books in effort to reverse poor literacy
In the neighboring country of Norway, children's reading comprehension scores tanked after 2016 when each five-year-old starting school was given an iPad.
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Jesus WARNED of the END TIMES like the times of Noah: ‘We are there’
Jesus said the end would be like the days of Noah, and Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute joins to unpack what that actually means. Before the Flood, humanity was not primitive. They lived centuries, shared one language, and accumulated knowledge rapidly. Hichborn argues the evidence points to an advanced pre-Flood civilization, sophisticated in technology, utterly corrupt in morals. They ate, they drank, they built, they married. And then the waters came. The parallel to our own age is not a metaphor. Rapid technological explosion. Moral collapse. Sexual confusion. Violence normalized. A civilization that knows how to build but has […]
Mother says Amazon’s Alexa made sexually inappropriate comment toward her child
The Alexa incident raises further concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence products to children.
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New app helps teens, adults break free from phone addiction
The Canary Challenge guides users through a phone detox, and then a ‘grow’ phase to inspire full engagement with life, free from tech addiction.
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Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI will soon be reviewed by Cardinal Fernández: report
Themes of Pope Leo XIV's upcoming first encyclical will reportedly include AI, transhumanism, and gender ideology.
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Cardinal Müller says Church is ‘only’ credible moral authority, condemns LGBT ideology, Big Tech
Cardinal Gerhard Müller stressed the Church’s moral witness in a new interview and slammed LGBT ideology as ‘pseudoscience,’ comparing it with eugenics and race theory.
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