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On 15 May, Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical letter, titled...
The narrative links a religious text to a scientific and policy debate, positioning the concern over AI as a structural, political problem rather than purely a technical one. This framing utilizes an authority game, where the moral weight of a religious text is leveraged to address technological risks, implicitly challenging the sufficiency of purely secular self-regulation. The underlying pattern involves moral panic—flagging an existential threat (algocracy) to justify intervention, often circ...
