‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Pope Leo’s hymn to human limits and warning against technological idolatry

May 28, 2026

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(ABC News) – In place of the quest to create artificial intelligences that can surpass human cognition and drive a technological revolution, Leo has written a hymn to the grandeur of human limitation. His dire assessment of the dehumanising “technocratic paradigm”, which he characterises as a “new Tower of Babel”, will likely come across as excessively negative, given the dramatic achievements of large language models and other machine learning tools. (Read More)