Neo-Modernist University Peddles Naturalist AI Idolatry Under Antipope’s Guidance
ACI Prensa (November 12, 2025) reports on Ana Lazcano, director of the University Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Spain’s Francisco de Vitoria University, promoting anthropocentric AI ethics under the banner of the antipope Leo XIV. The article parrots the conciliar sect’s standard naturalistic narrative, declaring that “artificial intelligence is not an all-powerful deity” while simultaneously elevating human reason as the ultimate arbiter of technological ethics. Lazcano boasts of creating “a unified vision of AI” through interdisciplinary collaboration between “philosophers, anthropologists, educators, engineers, psychologists,” conspicuously omitting theologians formed in the philosophia perennis. She claims their approach follows the antipope’s guidance: “Not to be afraid of it, to understand it, to approach it with great caution.”
Naturalistic Reduction of Technological Ethics
The institute’s proposed “four pillars” of training, research, technology transfer, and dissemination expose its fundamentally horizontal worldview. When Lazcano speaks of contributing to the “common good,” she divorces the term from its telos in eternal salvation, reducing it to utilitarian social engineering. Pius XI in Quas Primas condemned such anthropocentrism: “When men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19). The article’s exclusive focus on AI’s educational impact (“how we teach, learn, and assess”) demonstrates the conciliar sect’s obsession with temporal affairs while ignoring the regnum Dei.
Omission of Christ’s Sovereignty Over All Creation
Nowhere does Lazcano reference the Kingship of Christ over technology, despite Pius XI’s definitive teaching that Christ’s dominion extends to “individuals, families, and states” and that “the civil power must not be obeyed when it enacts anything contrary to the divine honor or salvation of souls” (Encyclical Qui pluribus, §64). The institute’s proposed “critical thinking” foundation is a modernist Trojan horse, echoing the condemned proposition from Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (§3).
“The moment we treat artificial intelligence as a deity, we are mistaken; it is far from that, it is a complement,”
Lazcano declares, committing the very error she pretends to avoid by establishing human-AI collaboration as the supreme good. St. Pius X condemned such naturalism in Pascendi Dominici gregis: “The Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Immanentism… it is only within man that the justification of faith is to be found” (§6).
Antipope’s Heretical Framework for Technological Progress
The article’s reference to “Pope Leo XIV” constitutes material cooperation with the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican. When Lazcano claims the antipope advised approaching AI “with great caution,” she obscures Bergoglio’s successor’s documented heresies. The usurper’s November 10 warning about AI fueling “antihuman ideologies” rings hollow from one who himself promotes the cultus hominis through documents like the Abu Dhabi Declaration (2019) declaring pluralistic equality of religions. True Catholic teaching maintains with Pius IX that “the Church is a perfect society, entirely free, endowed with all the means necessary for obtaining its proper end, which is the eternal salvation of souls” (Syllabus, Condemned Proposition §19).
Educational Apostasy Masquerading as Innovation
Lazcano’s celebration of AI disrupting traditional education methods (“written work no longer makes much sense”) reveals the conciliar sect’s hatred for the ratio studiorum that formed saints for centuries. Her vision of returning to “debate, to conversation” as the “original concept of university” constitutes historical revisionism, ignoring how medieval universities like Paris and Bologna centered on sacra doctrina as the queen of sciences. When she claims students now outpace teachers technologically, she echoes the condemned modernist belief that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine” (St. Pius X, Lamentabili, §64).
Silence on Supernatural Realities Exposes Modernist Agenda
The article’s complete omission of grace, the sacraments, and the soul’s salvation through Christ demonstrates the conciliar sect’s materialist captivity. Not once does Lazcano mention the dangers of transhumanism’s God-complex or the need to order AI development toward man’s supernatural end. Contrast this with Pius XII’s warning: “Technical progress must be subordinated to man’s spiritual perfection” (Radio Message, 1953). The institute’s anthropocentric “common good” paradigm rejects the dictatum of Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19).
False Premise of “Ethical AI” Without Divine Law
Lazcano’s entire project collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. To discuss “ethical challenges” of AI while rejecting the lex divina as the supreme norm constitutes intellectual fraud. The Syllabus definitively condemned the notion that “human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (§3). Without submission to Christ the King, all technological ethics degenerate into what Pius XI called “the cult of man” (Divini Redemptoris, §9). The institute’s interdisciplinary approach – mixing psychologists and engineers – embodies the modernist synthesis condemned in Pascendi: “They proceed to confuse science with faith… and to make of faith an expression of sentiment” (§13).
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Artificial intelligence is not an all-powerful deity, university expert warns (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.11.2025