translator, teacher, poet, frequenter of nature preserves, lover of very old poetry, non-tenure-track professor, benedictine oblate.
ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?
Those looking for insights on Magnifica Humanitas would do well to check out the ongoing series on https://t.co/y8WhArOTn3. I liked this from Julie Hanlon Rubio on the proper place of "pelvic theology." https://t.co/8A1qb4heTI
@DaultRadio i'm glad when anyone comes to this realization, but it really should have been obvious to anyone who cares about higher ed in about december of '22.
"AI is armed and dangerous, and the act of defusing it will take work from us all."
@JohnSlatteryPhD on Pope Leo's 'Magnifica Humanitas':
https://t.co/fXhLp6O1DC
Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas
We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.
In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
@jmasseypoet this is right. the reciting itself instantiates the work of art in a human body/mind.
the conceptual material conveyed in words (less commonly the sonic material) normally refers to "life" broadly construed and so is not "the thing itself," but that's not what art is anyway.
amen.
the full statement is clear-sighted, not just stating _what_ is expected but _why_ and does not defer to industry ad-speak.
also explains why it makes sense to train in particular circumstances for technical knowledge for professional spaces.
c'mon #highered; we can do it.