🔥 “the encyclical importantly reframes technological power as part of a much larger struggle over who gets to define and control human lives… AI as a grave threat to human dignity and the latest point on a much longer timeline of domination,” dependent on a new slave labor to function. #mustread
Laura R. Prieto
an absolute delight to collaborate with @roopikarisam.bsky.social on this smart piece for @religiondispatches.org about the pope linking AI to histories of enslavement and exploitation
check it out!
religiondispatches.org/2026/05/26/l...
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical this week, on the 135th anniversary of his eponymous predecessor’s landmark Rerum Novarum, or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor. And like Leo XIII befor...
