It’s June, the time of year when traveling carnivals move from town to town to entertain the public, with dangerous rides and rigged games of chance, all designed to separate the customers, whom they call “marks,” from their hard earned money.  These carnivals typically are run by shady and unscrupulous people, “carnys,” who derive their […]

Pope Leo XIV this week issued his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, in which he called for the limitation and control of artificial intelligence (AI) , which the Pope says threatens to normalize an anti-human vision, by concentrating immense digital power in the hands of a few private actors.  The Pope warns that AI represents “the […]