The reality is that APC is a cancer that has created sycophants, bigots and bootlickers in all other arms of government, leading to the death of genuine politics that engages the issues and needs of the ordinary people.
For Christ’s sake, where are the checks and balances?
In the abstract, technology in and of itself is not a solution to humanity’s problems, just as, in and of itself, it is not inherently evil. In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it and use it.
There’s a required formation, and perhaps forms of vulnerability and dependence intrinsic to a finite embodied life that AI lacks, which in turn fuels my skepticism.
But I still struggle to believe that even AI’s consciousness of self-determination and its being an end in itself still does not create wisdom. I don’t believe relational alterity equates ethical formation.
Affirmed, alterity relations with humans and the novel emergent AI-to-AI interaction could create a developmental ecology in which broader forms of intelligence emerge autonomously, making the idea of a general superintelligence more plausible.
It involves judgment, moral seriousness, and a sense of what ought to be done right rather than what can be done more efficiently. Wisdom is not simply efficient reasoning; it is something cultivated over time, shaped through reflection, experience, and often difficulty.
I find that in all this clamour around AI, the dichotomy between wisdom and intelligence lingers.
Intelligence may involve problem-solving, adaptation, prediction, and even moral, social and possibly religious intelligence. Wisdom, however, seeks something more.
In the wake of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, I wonder what the nearest future will look like with the rise of constitutional AI. Would we eventually need to curtail or even worry about AI advancement?