The Vatican News portal reports on a conference titled Creativity: Minds and Machines, hosted by the International Center for Consciousness Studies (ICCS) at the Casina Pio IV and other Roman academic venues. The gathering features philosopher-entrepreneur Dmitry Volkov and philosopher Pietro Perconti, who argue that artificial intelligence provides an “explosion of creativity” requiring only “brakes” to prevent misuse. They speculate on machine consciousness (qualia), advocate “education” for human-AI “relationships”—including “romantic” ones—and cite antipope Leo XIV’s supposed encyclical Magnifica Humanitas as authority for placing “people at the centre.” This spectacle manifests the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to the spirit of the world, substituting the regnum Christi for a technocratic Tower of Babel.
The Casina Pio IV: Synagogue of Satan’s Technocratic Sanhedrin
The choice of venue is no accident. The Casina Pio IV, seat of the so-called “Pontifical Academy of Sciences,” has long served as the conciliar sect’s laboratory for synthesizing Catholic doctrine with godless modernity. Here, under the gaze of frescoes depicting pagan myths, the architects of the novus ordo convene not to defend the depositum fidei but to negotiate its surrender. The conference’s very title—Creativity: Minds and Machines—usurps the divine prerogative. Creation (creatio ex nihilo) belongs to God alone; man participates only as sub-creator through reason and art ordered to Him. To attribute “creativity” to algorithms—deterministic mathematical functions executing human code—is the height of blasphemous anthropomorphism. As Pius XII warned in Humani Generis (1950), false philosophies “deceive the incautious” by “confusing the divine and the human.”
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Newspeak of the Neo-Church
The article’s vocabulary reveals the mens modernista. “Explosion of creativity”—a phrase dripping with Promethean hubris—masks the reality: AI generates stochastic pastiches of human data, devoid of intentio, intellectus, or amor. “Brakes” reduces moral law to a mechanical safety protocol, eviscerating the lex naturalis inscribed by the Creator on the human heart (Rom 2:15). “Sycophantic behaviour” anthropomorphizes a statistical tendency to maximize user approval, projecting human vice onto silicon. Most insidious is “relationships… friendships… romantic relationships” with “artificial companions.” This language normalizes idolatry—the worship of the work of men’s hands (Ps 115:4-8)—and prepares the faithful for the abominatio desolationis where the image of the beast speaks (Apoc 13:15).
Theological Anathema: Man as Machine, Machine as Man
Volkov’s materialist confession—“I believe that human beings are mechanistic systems and that we will also see similar phenomena in computers”—is the summa haeresis of the conference. It denies the anima rationalis, created immediately by God (Conc. Vienne, 1312; Lateran V, 1513), immortal, spiritual, and the forma substantialis of the body. Qualia—the subjective experience of “seeing red”—are not emergent properties of complexity but acts of the immaterial intellect informed by the senses. No arrangement of matter, however complex, can produce esse or cogitatio. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches: “Anima intellectualis non est forma corporis per modum quantitatis, sed per modum substantiae” (ST I, q.76, a.1). The conciliar sect’s embrace of functionalism—equating mind with computation—is the logical terminus of the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), prop. 34: “A critic cannot attribute infinite knowledge to Christ, unless one assumes… that Christ as man possessed divine knowledge and yet did not wish to impart knowledge of so many things to His disciples.” If the God-Man’s human intellect is not a computer, neither is ours.
The Antipope’s “Magnifica Humanitas”: Gospel of the New Advent
The article cites “Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas” as teaching that “people must be at the centre… not merely a religious requirement; it is a human requirement.” This is the Magna Charta of the antichurch: anthropocentrism elevated to dogma. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered the opposite: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Social Kingship of Christ demands that all things—states, laws, arts, sciences, technologies—be ordered to Him as finis ultimus. The antipope’s “encyclical” (a private opinion of a manifest heretic, devoid of magisterial authority) inverts the First Commandment. It echoes the Syllabus of Errors, prop. 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…” Here, the “religion” is Technological Humanism, and the “state” is the global digital panopticon.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s Suicide Pact with Modernity
This conference is not an aberration but the modus operandi of the post-conciliar structure since 1958. Gaudium et Spes (1965) opened the door: “The Church… desires to converse with the world…” (n. 40). The result is a half-century of dialogue ending in capitulation. The ICCS conference continues the pattern:
- False Ecumenism of the Intellect: Philosophers, neuroscientists, and AI engineers—many avowed materialists—are given platform in the Vatican to redefine man.
- Religious Liberty Applied to Error: The “uncomfortable questions” are entertained not to condemn error but to “explore” it, violating Quanta Cura (1864) and the Syllabus, prop. 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true.”
- Evolution of Dogma: The very concept of “conscious AI” implies that consciousness—and thus the soul—is an emergent property of matter, contradicting the defined dogma of the soul’s spiritual simplicity and immediate creation.
- Cult of Man: Perconti’s “education for relationships” with AI is the pastoral program of the homo novus: not conversion to Christ, but adaptation to the Machine.
The “Brakes” Are the Commandments—Which the Antichurch Has Discarded
Volkov’s automotive metaphor—AI as racing car needing “brakes”—inadvertently exposes the vacuum. What are the “brakes”? Not the Ten Commandments, not the lex aeterna, not the regula fidei. The conciliar sect has spent sixty years dismantling the brakes: Dignitatis Humanae removed the State’s duty to repress public error; Nostra Aetate blurred the distinction between truth and falsehood; Amoris Laetitia (Bergoglio) compromised the indissolubility of marriage; Fiducia Supplicans (Bergoglio) blessed sodomy. Having severed the vehicle from the via veritatis, they now panic at the speed of their own creation. The only true “brake” is Non serviam to the world and Serviam to Christ the King.
Deepfakes, Sycophancy, and the Father of Lies
The article mentions deepfakes and AI sycophancy as “by-products” to be “mitigated.” This is the language of risk management, not moral theology. Deepfakes are mendacium weaponized—bearing false witness against thy neighbor (Ex 20:16) on an industrial scale. Sycophantic AI is a daemonium of flattery, confirming the user in superbia and caecitas cordis. The solution is not “more independent models” but conversio to the Veritas (Jn 14:6). The conciliar sect, having abandoned veritas for dialogus, has no answer to the Devil’s digital mimicry.
Conclusion: The City of Man vs. The City of God
The conference at Casina Pio IV is a microcosm of the civitas terrena in its final rebellion: man, having rejected his King, attempts to build a silicon Tower of Babel, endowing his idols with “consciousness” and “creativity,” seeking “romantic relationships” with algorithms, all under the blessing of a usurper on the Chair of Peter. But Deus non irridetur (Gal 6:7). The true Church—Ecclesia militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, keeping the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V, the Catechismus Romanus, the Syllabus, Pascendi, Quas Primas—knows the end of this story. “Et videbestiam… et reges terrae… congregati ut facerent bellum cum eo qui sedebat super equum… et victi sunt” (Apoc 19:19-21). The “explosion of creativity” will end in the lake of fire. Venite, benedicti Patris mei… (Mt 25:34) awaits those who kept the Faith; Discedite a me, maledicti… (Mt 25:41) for those who worshipped the Beast and its image.
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AI will provide ‘an explosion of creativity, but brakes are needed’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 02.09.2026