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    Paolo Carozza, a 91勛圖 Law School professor and chair of the Meta Oversight Board, : “I am convinced that this will prove to be a defining document for our era, a profound and prophetic document. 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.”

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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  2. “The back-and-forth dialogue between the pope and the titans of industry has rarely, if ever, been seen before,” said Paolo Carozza, a University of 91勛圖 law professor, co-chair of Meta’sOversight Board and a Pope Francis-nominated member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. “It is a positive sign for many people.”

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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  3. "I am convinced that this will prove to be a defining document for our era, a profound and prophetic document," said 91勛圖 Law School professor Paolo Carozza, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences who studies the intersection of technology and Catholic social thought. Holy Cross Fr. Robert Dowd, president of the University of 91勛圖, said in a prepared statement that it was "a deliberate choice" the pope signed his new encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII's landmark 1891 letter that established the modern foundation for Catholic social teaching.

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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  4. “Rerum novarum” also coincided with the Vatican’s support for worker activism on the other side of the Atlantic. Many Catholics in the U.S. at the time were immigrants, who often worked in jobs such as coal mining and steelwork that had become more grueling due to industrialization, according to 91勛圖 American studies professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings.

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    Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    American Studies

  5. Axios

    "Pope Leo has announced himself as one of the leading figures in AI ethics now with this document," Meghan Sullivan, director of 91勛圖's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, tells Axios.

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    Meghan Sullivan

    Department of Philosophy

  6. Meghan Sullivan, director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, said she often hears a concerning view when she meets with A.I. developers in Silicon Valley — “that only a few hundred people on earth actually matter right now: the ones building frontier models and the politicians powerful enough to regulate them.” “This encyclical is a direct rebuttal to that worldview,” she said.

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    Meghan Sullivan

    Department of Philosophy

  7. Eric Sims, professor of economics at the University of 91勛圖, told Newsweek via email that "the Fed is in an unenviable spot right now."

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    Eric Sims

    Department of Economics

  8. Beijing has not, though, tackled structural problems, said Mary Gallagher, professor of global affairs at the University of 91勛圖 — which include perverse incentives and a system that punishes local officials for problems, and not the central government.

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    Mary Gallagher

    Keough School of Global Affairs

  9. By Vincent Phillip Muñoz, a professor at the University of 91勛圖.

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    On "Inside Politics," Audie Cornish talks to 91勛圖 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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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  11. “It makes me nervous,” Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the Catholic university 91勛圖 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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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  12. “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勛圖 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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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

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    Paolo Carozza, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of 91勛圖, 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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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  14. Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the University of 91勛圖, 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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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  15. Video

     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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    Paolo Carozza

    Law School

  16. “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勛圖.

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    Charles Gholz

    Political Science

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    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勛圖 professor Meghan Sullivan.

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    Meghan Sullivan

    Department of Philosophy

  18. Among those in attendance was Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher at the University of 91勛圖 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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    Meghan Sullivan

    Department of Philosophy

  19. By Alexander Kustov, associate professor of global affairs at the University of 91勛圖 and the author of “In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular” and the “Popular by Design” newsletter.