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Loved the distinction that agents don’t just generate answers, they execute workflows and actions across systems. Luís Rodrigues

As you mentioned, despite religion, this is something to follow as well as something historic. Vatican done the same during the last major industrial revolution. Anthropic has been working with religious/spiritual people for a while now so it seems logic to see this document coming out. While I haven't read it all, I see this as the Vatican official AI position not just for all to read but also for them internally. Priests like many other "positions/job" have been caught using AI and parishioners complaining about it. This is the official start of more AI literacy within the church which is something missing within every workforce. I agree with the school point and wonder if catholic school will adapt their curriculum quicker than public schools. I've been introducing AI to my kids for last 2yrs and youngest is only 5. But it's key we better support our young by teaching them about AI not just how to prompt, creative thinking, but its impact on the earth and society. So they can understand the bigger picture, not just the marketing slogan of AI companies.

Well, what does it mean if for not taking over its industrial and intellectual prowess?

The real AI question is not capability, but who controls the outcomes and benefits it creates.

Mila F. more on the EdTech perspective here:

Robert Felix Carter again - you raise real historical wounds — none of which should be minimised. But your framing actually gave me a thought: name a 2,000-year-old organisation — or company — with a perfect leadership track record.

Life is a full circle.

Sanders and the Pope saying the same things about AI

This is Malthus with a GPU. Project demand forward on a straight line, freeze supply and efficiency where they are today, and you get a catastrophe. It's compelling maths. It's also exactly the same mistake people have been making for 200 years. Energy per computation is falling. Model efficiency is improving with every generation. Inference costs are dropping faster than usage is scaling. And the supply side isn't standing still either. SMRs, next-gen solar, and fusion investment are all accelerating precisely because the demand signal is there. MIT did the maths on today's footprint and drew a line into the future. Malthus did the maths on population and predicted mass famine. He couldn't see the combine harvester coming. Same error, different century.

I’ve noticed emotional intelligence is usually revealed in the moments where someone could react from ego, defensiveness, or pressure, but chooses not to.

Most people think EQ is just about being nice or calm. But knowing yourself well enough to catch your own reactions before they do damage? That's the real work. And it never really stops.

Brilliant graphic explaining the importance of EQ for any leader to be effective!

AI is not neutral once it enters an unequal system. It scales whatever incentives are already there. That’s why the real issue is not whether it can solve big problems, but who it is allowed to solve them for.

From one theology & ethics graduate to another, thanks for sharing!!

Great!

Justin Wright Emotional intelligence is what helps people work better together and lead with more understanding.

Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez I completely agree with your assessment of the pedagogical challenge. In fact my original post is not about coming up with solutions. Is about university machines letting us teachers try them. I am just an hobbist, we have colleagues in the pedagogy department whose life has been dedicated to pedagogy that can help way better than me. I am sure they have a bunch of cool approaches to try. The real challenge is the resistance to change and the lack of willingness/resources/risk tollerance to support change. We need changes in procedures that have been used for more than a decade and that are at the basis of existing business models. For example, I have the hunch that the remote assessment enabled a lot of commodification, that brought in lots of money in fields that traditionally had no money. It allowed to cut staff, and to rely less on expert staff, while expanding the number of students. The explosion of masters for foreign students that can barely understand English, was partially enabled by the take home assessment model. Those students would not survive a single oral, but without those students many of us will not have jobs.

Clara Hawking Clara, thank you for this post. Indeed, the flood of overnight verdicts is itself a case study in what the document warns against: the social media reflex of converting complexity into immediate output. Your point on schools as civilisational institutions rather than labour-market pipelines is one of the strongest threads. Here is what struck me on a first read. Leo XIV is unusually direct about political economy. The document names private transnational power directly & is concrete on AI's supply chain. This is closer to Dr. Cecilia Rikap's analysis of monopoly capitalism than I expected from Rome. Where I will want to read more slowly is the treatment of #posthumanism, which collapses serious critical scholarship into Silicon Valley enhancement ideology. And the anthropocentric centre of gravity narrows the planetary opening that #LaudatoSi' began. A comparison of the two papal documents could be very telling. Looking forward to your deeper reading. Aida Ponce Del Castillo Carissa Véliz Vanessa Andreotti

For the working class the new area of improvement (career path in 2027?) probably; how many AI agents can you manage effectively and efficiently, while manage other humans, who probably manage some AI agents their capacity?

Only half the picture. "who decides" sounds good in town hall but try asking a baker in Smallville. He's elbow deep in dough at 5am, phone buzzing with a Amazon order he still copies into Excel by hand. Nobody invited him to the table. He didn't lose out because of some boardroom power grab. He lost out because the tool landed in his inbox, he clicked around for 20 minutes, got frustrated, and closed the tab. That's an adoption problem. A guy with flour on his hands and no one showing him which button to press.