Power and Chaos: AI as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
“Even criminals with very limited skills will be able to attack victims at every scale.” Gates’s phrase is not science...
The End of Cognitive Work: When Capitalism Runs Out of Employees
“Many jobs will disappear forever.” Gates’s sentence is lapidary, and for the first time in a technological...
The Equalizer or Injustice: The Dilemma Gates Names but Does Not Resolve
“AI will be the greatest equalizer ever invented or the worst source of injustice.” The phrase is the moral axis of...
The Tired Prophet: When Bill Gates Asked to Slow the Machine
Bill Gates spent fifty years saying “faster.” In August 2026, he said “slower.” This is not a spiritual conversion; it...
A Law Had to Be Written Because a Human Stopped Thinking
In 2016, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation had to recognize something uncomfortable: a person’s...
Assessment and Outlook: The Vatican as a Moral Voice in the Age of AI
Throughout this journey through the Vatican’s position on artificial intelligence, we have seen how the Holy See has...
Between Diplomacy and Multilateralism: The Vatican’s Presence in Global Forums
The Holy See has carried out intense diplomatic activity around artificial intelligence in 2026, using its observer...
Autonomous Weapons and Digital War: The Vatican Against the Normalization of Conflict
Magnifica Humanitas devotes an entire chapter to the military use of artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV warns that...
Work, Slavery, and Digital Colonialism: The Vatican’s Social Denunciation
The digital economy often presents itself as clean, frictionless, and immaterial. The Vatican’s social critique asks...
Against the Dream of Digital Immortality: The Vatican and the Transhumanist Challenge
The dream of digital immortality promises a future in which consciousness can be copied, death can be delayed, and the...
Data as a Common Good: The Vatican’s Most Radical Proposal
Among the Vatican’s reflections on artificial intelligence, one proposal is especially radical: data should be...
An Institutional Architecture for the Digital Age: The Interdicasterial Commission and the Rome Call
The Vatican’s response to artificial intelligence has not been limited to speeches. It has tried to build an...