Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work is available for pre-order (and 10% off at the moment!) If something about your work life is troublesome, you hate jargon and you aren't sure about Catholic teaching, I wrote it for you. bloomsbury.com/us/making-a-l…

Very excited that Catholic Labor Network is leading a summer book study on Making a Life! There's a discount code to order the book and you can sign up at CatholicLabor.org/events!

So let me get this straight: When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis. When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation. Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

Missed this back in March--from a Jesuit economist, a case for UBI in light of AI labor disruption, and specific proposals for funding it americamagazine.org/short-ta…

Great piece, featuring a thought experiment on how Anthropic should be treating Claude based on their belief that it may become conscious, and the many downsides to entertaining that idea.

You can now listen to an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas! vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…

Those looking for insights on Magnifica Humanitas would do well to check out the ongoing series on CatholicMoralTheology.com. I liked this from Julie Hanlon Rubio on the proper place of "pelvic theology." catholicmoraltheology.com/p/…

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

genuinely think this is one of the most beautiful documents of our time

“A society that guarantees employment to only a small fraction of the population, despite having a high level of technical development, risks exposing many to forced inactivity. This creates a paradox of material progress and anthropological regression that undermines the foundations of a just and stable social peace. ... At this time of transition, it is not enough to react only when jobs disappear; we must oversee the transformation in advance. One viable path is, first of all, to establish social criteria for innovation. Here, every introduction of automation and AI should be accompanied by verifiable measures to protect the employment, retraining and participation of workers. In this way, technology will be oriented toward freeing up human time and capabilities, rather than producing exclusion. ... The labor market is one area in which the risks associated with new technologies more clearly emerge. It is thus necessary to remember that economic freedom is not absolute; it must always be measured against the common good and the dignity of every person. Entrepreneurial initiative can indeed be a true vocation, generating wealth and improving lives, rather than a variable that is dependent only on profit. This is possible when it recognizes that the creation of dignified, valuable jobs are an essential part of its proper service to society." -- Pope Leo on the risks posed to workers from AI vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…

I was listening to a neuroscientist talk about AI and human behavior, and he mentioned studies showing that when people let AI make decisions for them, they feel less morally responsible for the outcome. That genuinely stopped me cold.

NEW from me: In new findings, researchers from a group of religious schools (BYU, Notre Dame, Baylor and Yeshiva) say popular AI models have a bias towards Catholicism when asked questions about conversion. religionnews.com/2026/05/26/…

Do read the speech given by Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah at the launch of the Pope's Encyclical. "What has grown is far more subtle, odd, and beautiful than science fiction prepared us for . . . mysterious even to those of us who train them" anthropic.com/news/chris-ola…

Ooo, if there's a tie between the date and its observance in the US, this may be it.

seeing uni lecturers say “I’m not going to turn into an AI cop” is so disheartening. it is not being a “cop” to assess whether your students have learned something - it’s being a teacher, and it’s one of your core responsibilities!!

Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech: "I'd like to close with a request. We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction. We need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend. Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot. Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take. Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."

In #Magnificahumanitas Pope Leo follows Francis of citing non-magisterial sources, (though not as much) Top sources Pope Francis with ~57 citations and JP2 40. 11 non popes include Plato, Aquinas, de Bérulle, Augustine, Guardini, Hannah Arendt, Viktor Frankl and Tolkien!

Thanks for following along and sorry I couldn't figure out how to thread on two platforms. Welcome Magnifica Humanitas! Can't wait for discussion and reception!

243-5: an ending focused on Mary in an unmistakenly liberative, Magnificat-focused tone, a move both deeply traditional (JPII always closed with Mary) and new, and that's our Leo XIV.

... I would encourage a careful examination of the supply chains of digital production, the working conditions hidden behind our devices and the mechanisms that profit from manipulation and war.