Scraping the Sky

The metaphor of the Tower of Babel for the misuse of AI right at the beginning of Magnifica Humanitas , Pope Leo's encyclical on AI and work, hooked me. It's been a document I've been thinking about since I finished it and I expect this won't be the last blog post I write about it. There's a tension I feel between my different values — my love of computing and my belief in humanity as flawed but…