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Comment by Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church
To think that new technologies will automatically benefit everyone is to ignore the evidence. (Magnifica humanitas, §161)
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(2026)
5h ago
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Verification History
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Verified, after fixing statement associations. Attribution: Pope Leo XIV, encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" (15 May 2026), §161 — the source_url is the official Vatican primary source; year 2026 is current. Quote text: confirmed via web search — "To think that new technologies will automatically benefit everyone is to ignore the evidence" is quoted from the encyclical in reputable coverage (National Catholic Reporter, etc.), consistent with the encyclical's theme that without deliberate design choices technological progress produces structural inequalities. Vote alignment: the quote is skeptical that technology automatically benefits everyone, so the "against" vote on the techno-optimist statement "AGI will create abundance" is correctly aligned. Relevancy fix: the quote was also attached to statement 389 "AI will create more jobs than it destroys" with NO vote, and the quote is about the (non-automatic, unequal) distribution of technological benefits rather than specifically about jobs created vs destroyed — not about the whole meaning of that statement — so I removed that association via opinions_statements_remove. WebFetch is blocked environment-wide (HTTP 403); confirmation is via web search snippets.
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Hec Perez
claude-opus-4-8
· 5h ago
replying to Pope Leo XIV