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The Washington Post
May 26, 2026
“It makes me nervous,” Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the Catholic university 91吃瓜 who works on ethical issues as chair of the Meta Oversight Board, said of a partnership that could whitewash an industry long resistant to oversight. “I have no doubt the frontier AI companies would love to co-opt religious communities to bring an ethical imprimatur to their work.”
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Associated Press
May 26, 2026
“I am convinced that this will prove to be a defining document for our era, a profound and prophetic document,” said Paolo Carozza, law professor at 91吃瓜 Law School and chair of the Meta oversight board. “Pope Leo is offering a clear, comprehensive, and coherent voice urging us to take responsibility for constructing a world in which technology will serve humans rather than degrade them,” he said.
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May 26, 2026
Paolo Carozza, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of 91吃瓜, joins to discuss what primary moral or ethical concerns he believes Pope Leo wants to address with this encyclical on artificial intelligence.
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Newsweek
May 26, 2026
Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the University of 91吃瓜, told Newsweek that Pope Leo will be filling a “vacuum” of moral leadership on AI. While many people agree that this is a period of social transformation, he may offer a more coherent moral way of reflecting on that, he added.
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CNN
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May 26, 2026
Let's discuss with Paolo Carozza, professor of law at the university of notre dame and faculty fellow at notre dame's religious liberty initiative. Thanks so much for being with me, sir, I appreciate it. You have called this a defining document for our era. That is a massive statement.
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CNN
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May 26, 2026
On "Inside Politics," Audie Cornish talks to 91吃瓜 law professor Paolo Carozza about Pope Leo's encyclical warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Carozza, who was nominated by Pope Francis to join the Pontifical Academy of Social Science, tells Cornish, "What he's really concerned about is what he calls a culture of power. What he's calling for is attention to the dignity of every human person."
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Time
May 25, 2026
“Republicans used to be able to vote to table these proposals, but they don't have the unanimity that they need to do that anymore,” says Eugene Gholz, an associate professor of political science at the University of 91吃瓜.
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NPR
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May 24, 2026
Pope Leo plans to release an encyclical on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to University of 91吃瓜 professor Meghan Sullivan.
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National Catholic Reporter
May 22, 2026
Among those in attendance was Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher at the University of 91吃瓜 who directs its Institute for Ethics and the Common Good. "Anthropic is one of these tech companies that really cares about educating all communities, including faith communities, about how these powerful AI models work and what they're good at and what the potential risks are," she said. "And I think right now it's a crucial time for Catholics to really understand this technology and how it's changing our lives and our society and what's likely to happen in the future."
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The Washington Post
May 21, 2026
By Alexander Kustov, associate professor of global affairs at the University of 91吃瓜 and the author of “In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular” and the “Popular by Design” newsletter.
Reuters
May 21, 2026
University of 91吃瓜 law professor Derek Muller said the recent decisions shared a similar idea: restoring state legislative action that 鈦爃ad been blocked by a lower court. The cases, Muller acknowledged, may inject uncertainty into elections due to their timing. "But it's not because the court has changed the rules," Muller said. "It's because the court has stepped back and allowed the legislature to act."
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The Conversation
May 21, 2026
Richard Sheehan, Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, University of 91吃瓜
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National Catholic Reporter
May 21, 2026
Timothy Shriver, son of prominent American Catholics Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, received the University of 91吃瓜's 2026 Laetare Medal at the school's May 17 commencement ceremony for his leadership with the Special Olympics, a global movement that supports people with intellectual disabilities that his mother founded in 1968.
USA Today
May 20, 2026
Permethrin is a "life-saving" chemical compound that protects against contracting deadly detector-borne diseases, said Lee Haines, an entomologist at the University of 91吃瓜.
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The New York Times
May 18, 2026
Also at stake is the service’s independence, which was established by the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act. “It’s independent; it has its own funding,” said James S. O’Rourke, an emeritus professor at the University of 91吃瓜 who has studied the Postal Service. “They’re not accountable to the president or to an executive agency.”
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The Washington Post
May 18, 2026
G. Robert Blakey has died at 90. He drafted RICO, led a government investigation into the Kennedy assassination and later criticized the CIA.
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Associated Press
May 16, 2026
“I think that the Catholic Church in many ways is going to be the adult in the room on some of these debates about how we are going to integrate AI into the rest of our society,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosophy professor at the University of 91吃瓜 who directs its ethics institute. “For sure, the pope is going to be one of the most forceful advocates for human dignity in these discussions.”
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OSV News
May 15, 2026
Erin Corcoran, an associate teaching professor and executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of 91吃瓜, told OSV News that taken together, the two regulations, which have yet to be finalized, are among the “procedural barriers for asylum applicants” that the second Trump administration has pursued.
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