{"id":23289,"date":"2026-05-29T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/why-im-grateful-to-the-pope-for-his-encyclical-on-ai-francine-prose\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:37:18","slug":"why-im-grateful-to-the-pope-for-his-encyclical-on-ai-francine-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/why-im-grateful-to-the-pope-for-his-encyclical-on-ai-francine-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss it<\/p>\n<p>Often I\u2019m asked if I think that the novels of the future will all be written by AI. It\u2019s not so much a question as a provocation. Do I worry that a machine can do what I do, only better? I usually say something like: \u201cNo algorithm is going to write Anna Karenina!\u201d which is also not a real answer.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m grateful to Pope Leo XIV, the American pope, for his recently issued letter to the world, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It\u2019s a long (more than 40,00 words), intelligent and thoughtful encyclical in which the pope addresses the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Now when someone asks my opinion of AI, I can refer them to the pope\u2019s letter, or at least chapter three.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/29\/pope-ai-encyclical\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0dbc670840a49f3540fedf13768a49e5ec5f8630\/0_0_3529_2825\/master\/3529.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8aa4223d8f9321dc7e3f5f977959f985\" title=\"Why I\u2019m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose\" \/>The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss it<br \/>\nOften I\u2019m asked if I think that the novels of the future will all be written by AI. It\u2019s not so much a question as a provocation. Do I worry that a machine can do what I do, only better? I usually say something like: \u201cNo algorithm is going to write Anna Karenina!\u201d which is also not a real answer.<br \/>\nSo I\u2019m grateful to Pope Leo XIV, the American pope, for his recently issued letter to the world, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It\u2019s a long (more than 40,00 words), intelligent and thoughtful encyclical in which the pope addresses the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Now when someone asks my opinion of AI, I can refer them to the pope\u2019s letter, or at least chapter three. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss it Often I\u2019m asked if I think that the novels of the future will all be written by AI. It\u2019s not so much a question as a provocation. Do I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/why-im-grateful-to-the-pope-for-his-encyclical-on-ai-francine-prose\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I\u2019m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI | Francine Prose<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}