USA · Ideenmagazin (Berggruen Institute)
Depending on your point of view, AI may look like a liberating tool, an existential threat, an environmental disaster — or something else entirely. This is not due to personal bias; it is because the phenomenon itself has more faces than any one position can see.
A man is walking down a crowded street at night, when a machine unexpectedly turns to greet him. Inside a glowing store window is an Apple iMac, its LCD screen mounted on a user-adjustable arm above a whimsical dome containing its processing hardware.
This week, Pope Leo XIV issued his highly anticipated encyclical, “ Magnifica Humanitas ,” on maintaining and promoting human rights, dignity, autonomy and distributive justice in the Age of AI.