Pope Leo XIV Warns of a 'Paradise of Machines'
Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a “paradise of machines” risked undermining humanity, opening a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, a nuclear arms race and other threats to life itself. The phrase carries more than a generic tech warning. A paradise of machines is a picture of comfort that costs you something, which puts the question at the level of what people are for rather than what tools can do.
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Framing AI as a possible “paradise of machines” is a moral argument first. The worry isn't malfunction; it's what comfort might cost.
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Naming AI and a nuclear arms race in one breath may flatten risks that need very different responses.