{"id":83017,"date":"2026-05-25T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83017"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:41","slug":"pope-new-tower-of-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-new-tower-of-babel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: New &#8216;Tower Of Babel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Wall Street Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u eku5yup0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Pope Leo XIV warned that artificial intelligence \u201cthreatens to normalize an anti-human vision\u201d and said that the concentration of immense digital power in the hands of a few private actors must be countered.\u00a0The Pontiff\u2019s encyclical letter\u2014a text that is poised to define Leo\u2019s papacy\u2014reads like a sharp warning to Silicon Valley executives and humanity more broadly about the future of civilization as new technologies rapidly advance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0\">\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u eku5yup0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">The risk, he said, is that humans will be reduced \u201cto mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.\u201d \u201cThe primary choice is not between a \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1779712001\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Pope: New &#8216;Tower Of Babel&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: Pope Leo XIV warned that artificial intelligence \u201cthreatens to normalize an anti-human vision\u201d and said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83018,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83017\/revisions\/83018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}