Algemeen·NRC·12 jun

Silicon Valley needs to get God

Pope Leo XIV recently presented the Catholic Church’s first encyclical on digital technology, Magnifica Humanitas. Silicon Valley’s atheist critics complained that the Holy Father had missed a chance to humble humanity before artificial superintelligence. Yet in the document is something more useful: an opening between technology and religion that may be society’s best hope in the age of AI. The case for bridging the divide is both principled and practical; spiritual and secular.