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The Pope vs. The Algorithm: Why the Vatican Just Teamed Up With an Atheist Tech Billionaire
Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas — a 105-page Vatican encyclical condemning the AI industry — alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Here's why the Catholic Church and Silicon Valley just formed the most unlikely alliance in tech history.
Nicholas West-
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The Babel Syndrome: Why the Pope Says AI Can Never Truly Think — and Why He Quoted Gandalf to Prove It
In Episode 2 of The Pope vs. The Algorithm, Pope Leo XIV names a disease inside the AI industry — the 'Babel Syndrome' — argues that no machine can ever truly think, and answers Silicon Valley with St. Augustine and a J.R.R. Tolkien quote buried in paragraph 213.
Nicholas West-