{"id":259696,"date":"2026-05-30T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:50:40","slug":"ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"AI&#8217;s choice: do we build Babel or Jerusalem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/3974-ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem\">AI&#8217;s choice: do we build Babel or Jerusalem?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/3974-ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem\">https:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/3974-ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 05:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.catholicregister.org\">www.catholicregister.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"[object Object]\">Matthew Harvey Sanders has<br \/>\nlong presaged the choice civilization must make between the golden path of<br \/>\nartificial intelligence development leading to human flourishing and a dark<br \/>\nroad defined by existential dread and transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[object Object]\">In Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo XIV\u2019s<br \/>\nhistoric first encyclical concerned with \u201cSafeguarding the Human Person in the<br \/>\nTime of Artificial Intelligence,\u201d the pontiff presented his own two-road<br \/>\nmetaphorical construct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[object Object]\">Leo warns that \u201ctechnology has the power to<br \/>\nheal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it can also divide,<br \/>\nexclude and generate new forms of injustice.\u201d The Bishop of Rome is<br \/>\nforeshadowing the inescapable decision confronting humanity between<br \/>\nconstructing a new Tower of Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem \u2014 a choice \u201cbetween a<br \/>\npower that claims to dominate the heavens and a people who work together in the<br \/>\npresence of God to rebuild the walls of fraternal coexistence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"300\" height=\"250\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"[object Object]\">Sanders, the Canadian creator of the world-leading Catholic Large Language Model (LLM) Magisterium AI, was inside the Vatican\u2019s Synod<br \/>\nHall on May 25 for the encyclical signing event. He beheld seeds of the latter<br \/>\ncollaborative dynamic as Christopher Olah, the co-founder of Anthropic, and<br \/>\nAmanda Askell, the Scottish philosopher who developed the Claude chatbot&#8217;s<br \/>\ninherent nature, exhibited their company\u2019s AI ethics alliance with the Holy<br \/>\nSee. He said many more figures in the AI space are welcoming the<br \/>\narrival of Magnifica humanitas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[object Object]\">\u201cWhat I&#8217;m seeing more than anything else is<br \/>\nthe industry desperately feels that some moral voice has to step in and just<br \/>\ntry to activate people because some heads of the biggest AI labs in the world<br \/>\nare concerned about the disruption that AI and robotics will cause labour,\u201d<br \/>\nsaid Sanders. \u201cThey see this transition could likely be very rough as a result,<br \/>\nand they&#8217;re just not seeing enough (response). We forget that these heads of AI<br \/>\nlabs are not robots. They&#8217;re people who have kids and care&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/3974-ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI&#8217;s choice: do we build Babel or Jerusalem? https:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/3974-ais-choice-do-we-build-babel-or-jerusalem Publish Date: 2026-05-30 05:10:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ems.catholicregister.ca\/assets\/d63f9cc8-2948-45cb-a0d1-1a018dcc40d8\/?fit=cover&width=1200&height=630&quality=75&format=jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,17],"class_list":["post-259696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259698,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259696\/revisions\/259698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}