Reading Magnifica Humanitas: Ai and the Human Person
Six books that frame the theological, historical, and technical stakes of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on safeguarding the human person amid artificial intelligence.
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The Alignment ProblemBrian ChristianExplains how AI systems fail and the technical-cultural challenges that the encyclical is responding to, grounding...Shelf signal: AI & Machine Learning
The Human Use of Human BeingsNorbert Wiener, Brian ChristianA classic account of human-machine relations that supplies historical and philosophical context for claims about human...Shelf signal: AI & Machine Learning
DominionTom HollandSurveys Christianity's long influence on Western ideas of human worth, helping readers see how Catholic teaching...Shelf signal: Christian History
Theological AnthropologyJ. Patout BurnsProvides a systematic theological account of personhood to evaluate the encyclical's critique of transhumanist views of...Shelf signal: The Christian Soul
God, Technology, and the Christian LifeTony ReinkeDirectly addresses Christian responses to technology and offers practical theological perspectives relevant to the...Shelf signal: Religion & Science
2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded EditionJohn C. LennoxFrames popular anxieties and religious perspectives about a technological future, useful for readers confronting the...Shelf signal: Religion & Science