{"id":3741,"date":"2026-05-28T12:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:10:25","slug":"3741","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/3741","title":{"rendered":"Now the Pope has weighed in."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Pope\u2019s pro-human message enjoyed widespread approval from the faithful and profane alike. Most of us would prefer not to have our lives chewed up by computers and spit out as quasi-animate data. So thanks for that. The AI encyclical echoed many positions tech skeptics have argued over the years: keep kids off of smartphones; keep AI out of schools; don\u2019t recklessly replace all workers; don\u2019t indulge billionaire power trips; resist technocratic efficiency and eugenic perfectionism; reject transhumanist hubris, and self-negating posthumanism. Pray for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebot.xyz\/p\/no-sympathy-for-the-machine?utm_source=post-email-title&#038;publication_id=235812&#038;post_id=199602796&#038;utm_campaign=email-post-title&#038;isFreemail=true&#038;r=75kxub&#038;triedRedirect=true&#038;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Allen<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 5\/28\/26<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Pope\u2019s pro-human message enjoyed widespread approval from the faithful and profane alike. Most of us would prefer not to have our lives chewed up by computers and spit out as quasi-animate data. So thanks for that. The AI encyclical echoed many positions tech skeptics have argued over the years: keep kids off of smartphones; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,25,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}