Michael Gove on why the Pope's AI intervention shames our politicians
5/28/202615 min
The Spectator's editor Michael Gove ‘was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture’, but – in this week's magazine – is ‘giving thanks to the Pope’ for producing Magnifica Humanitas, his encyclical about artificial intelligence (AI). AI will be ‘as transformative as the Industrial Revolution’ but decisions ‘about where this technology is going and how it might be deployed are concentrated... in perilously few hands’.
Michael joins Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke to explain why the document reveals Pope Leo to be 'intellectually confident and coherent', what the Christian response to AI should be and why he believes Catholic social teaching is 'absolutely essential' in instructing us for how to deal with this next technological revolution.
Produced by Patrick Gibbons.
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First 90 secondsMichael Gove· Guest0:00
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Damian Thompson· Host0:55
[gentle music] Welcome to Holy Smoke, The Spectator's religion podcast. I'm Damien Thompson. Pope Leo XIV this week published the first major teaching document of his pontificate, a 42,000-word encyclical on the challenge of artificial intelligence entitled Magnifica Humanitas,