Further reading:
<ul>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Magnifica Humanitas</a>" by Leo XIV</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://firstthings.com/ai-doesnt-know-what-its-doing/" rel="noopener noreferrer">AI Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing</a>" by Thomas Fowler (First Things)</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://firstthings.com/the-future-of-reading/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Future of Reading</a>" by Wessie Du Toit (First Things)</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://firstthings.com/a-boomer-but-an-augustinian-on-magnifica-humanitas/" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Boomer, But An Augustinian</a>" by Jacob Phillips (First Things)</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opinion/pope-leo-encyclical-ai.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Pope Should Be Going to War Against A.I. Why Isn’t He?"</a> by Matthew Walther (New York Times)</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhuman/dp/0316595640?tag=firstthings20-20" rel="noopener noreferrer">If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies</a>, by Eliezer Yudkowsky</li>
</ul>

In this episode, First Things senior editor Dan Hitchens joins Virginia and Germán to discuss Magnifica Humanitas. Is it a disappointment or a triumph? Is it really a Boomer document? Why hasn't Leo XIV declared a Butlerian Jihad? Will artificial intelligence kill us all? Is worry about computer consciousness overwrought?

The Church of Claude (ft. Dan Hitchens)

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