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May 29, 2026

A Jewish Consideration of the Pope’s View of AI

The dangers of the new idolatry.

On May 15, Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on artificial intelligence. As someone whose “Jewish moral anthropology” makes him “quite friendly to the general modes of thought of Catholic social teaching,” Yuval Levin approached the document as “a very friendly reader.” He writes:

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