AI as a New Idol: The Vatican’s Techno-Pastoral Delusion in the Age of Apostasy
VaticanNews portal reports on a conference titled “Preserving Human Voices and Faces,” held on May 21, 2026, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome, organized by the Dicastery for Communication under the auspices of the conciliar sect. The event, inspired by the message of antipope Leo XIV for the World Day of Social Communications and timed just before the publication of his first encyclical Magnifica humanitas, gathered academics, tech experts, and journalists to discuss artificial intelligence’s impact on human relationships, media, and social inequalities. Speakers included Paolo Ruffini, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Marijana Grbeša Zenzerović, Eli Pariser, Kashmir Hill, Vineet Khosla, Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Benjamin Rosman, and Joy Buolamwini. Their reflections centered on AI’s dangers—disinformation, dehumanization, algorithmic bias—and proposed solutions rooted in education, responsibility, and cooperation, all framed within a humanistic vision that conspicuously omits supernatural truth, divine law, and the Kingship of Christ.


