{"id":14127,"date":"2026-05-28T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14127"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:59:46","slug":"pope-leos-a-i-encyclical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/pope-leos-a-i-encyclical\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo’s A. I. Encyclical"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blather, bromides, and a soup\u00e7on<\/em> of bullshit to spice it up:<\/div>\n
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Most fanciful is the pope\u2019s claim that the mandarins at the United Nations should be entrusted with overseeing AI. He says they \u201care essential instruments for promoting a civilization of love, for they can foster dialogue among nations and promote the peaceful resolution of conflicts.\u201d This is truly the triumph of hope over experience. (WSJ<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I’m all for love, dialogue, and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.\u00a0 But ask yourself: could the pope, or anyone, by entering into loving dialogue with the members of the IRGC, persuade these thugs to stop murdering fellow Iranian citizens?\u00a0 They have slaughtered some 42, 000 of them in recent months.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You cannot build a “civilization of love” with the anti-civilizational.<\/div>\n
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Our dear pope is a fool on several levels, and certainly no improvement over his predecessor, Bergoglio the Benighted.<\/div>\n
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Addendum<\/strong> (5\/29\/2026, 9:47 AM).\u00a0 Michael Liccione, staunch Catholic, on his Facebook page, emphasis added:<\/div>\n
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In my view it is imperative, for example, to prevent a regime of deranged religious zealots from acquiring nuclear weapons that they would almost certainly use, starting with Israel and ending up with the US. There can be no negotiated “deal” with the Islamic Republic, no genuine “dialogue” with people who sincerely call your country “Satan.” Their twisted theology, a minority view among a minority of Muslims, makes it impossible for them to abandon their nefarious goals. The Israeli-American “self-defense” we’ve been seeing is accordingly pre-emptive. There was little or no room for that sort of thing in just-war doctrine before nuclear weapons and AI. There should be now<\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blather, bromides, and a soup\u00e7on of bullshit to spice it up: Most fanciful is the pope\u2019s claim that the mandarins at the United Nations should be entrusted with overseeing AI. He says they \u201care essential instruments for promoting a civilization of love, for they can foster dialogue among nations and promote the peaceful resolution of … Continue reading “Pope Leo’s A. I. Encyclical”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14141,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions\/14141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}