A secular evaluation of AI: Anna Goldsworthy’s essay

By Paul Monk

In early June, in this magazine, I expressed exasperated astonishment with Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence (AI) and the human future because its entire text contains not a single citation from any research on AI as such, whether from a technological or from a socio-economic point of view.

Instead, it refers exclusively to earlier Papal encyclicals and the work of a handful of theologians who lived and died many centuries before there was any such thing as AI. The one exception is a brief quote from Hannah Arendt, who died in 1975, but was, at least, secular, Jewish and a social theorist.

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