There's an "Encyclical for Dummies" [0] that I found helpful, before reading the whole thing, if I get to it.
It's really good food for thought.
> “Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship, and responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences”
On technocracy:
> “The fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating uncertainty, and exerting total control. When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are tempted to see themselves as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion”.
> The culture of power is the globalised technocratic paradigm, an arms race for ever more grandiose forms of AI, the descent into multipolar geopolitics, resurgent armed conflicts, identitarianism, and so on. It is a world where sheer force holds sway, strength wins, and power comes without responsibility. It is a world where any new technology is immediately put to use by shadowy actors seeking to reap the material or political benefits it brings.
> The civilisation of love is a society centred on the grandeur of being a human creature, which means apportioning relationship and communion the supreme place. That, in turn, means valuing each person as made in the image of God and applying the principles of Catholic Social Doctrine to technological developments. These principles are equal dignity, human rights, a commitment to the common good, the universal destination of resources, subsidiarity and solidarity.
> The key Scriptural lens of the encyclical is the contrast between the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) and Nehemiah’s rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh 2-6). Babel displays the grandiosity of seeking to surpass all limits. Nehemiah displays the grandeur of working within and through creaturely limits – patience, fraternity, cooperation, and wisdom, etc. Jesus shows us how to mirror Nehemiah, and how not to re-enact Babel. In giving himself to us in the Eucharist, moreover, we glimpse the Heavenly Jerusalem (Rev 21), which is the model and exemplar of Nehemiah’s city.
It's really good food for thought.
> “Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship, and responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences”
On technocracy:
> “The fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating uncertainty, and exerting total control. When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are tempted to see themselves as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion”.
> The culture of power is the globalised technocratic paradigm, an arms race for ever more grandiose forms of AI, the descent into multipolar geopolitics, resurgent armed conflicts, identitarianism, and so on. It is a world where sheer force holds sway, strength wins, and power comes without responsibility. It is a world where any new technology is immediately put to use by shadowy actors seeking to reap the material or political benefits it brings.
> The civilisation of love is a society centred on the grandeur of being a human creature, which means apportioning relationship and communion the supreme place. That, in turn, means valuing each person as made in the image of God and applying the principles of Catholic Social Doctrine to technological developments. These principles are equal dignity, human rights, a commitment to the common good, the universal destination of resources, subsidiarity and solidarity.
> The key Scriptural lens of the encyclical is the contrast between the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) and Nehemiah’s rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh 2-6). Babel displays the grandiosity of seeking to surpass all limits. Nehemiah displays the grandeur of working within and through creaturely limits – patience, fraternity, cooperation, and wisdom, etc. Jesus shows us how to mirror Nehemiah, and how not to re-enact Babel. In giving himself to us in the Eucharist, moreover, we glimpse the Heavenly Jerusalem (Rev 21), which is the model and exemplar of Nehemiah’s city.
[0] https://livingcatholictruth.substack.com/p/magnifica-humanit...