“The greatest risk for the AI industry today is not rules but uncertainty,” writes @glenweyl in a guest essay. “The stabilising and consistently influential force of ancient traditions offers technology the roots it needs to grow” economist.com/by-invitation/…

@glenweyl makes some good points here, on @Pontifex 's encyclical. If AI is to be regulated by anything, it should be established moral wisdoms and not political whim. economist.com/by-invitation/…

Plenty to ponder in @glenweyl’s piece “Silicon Valley needs to get God.”🪷 Gratitude to my good friend & co-creator Glen for the shout-out.🙏 Empathy & humanism are the cornerstones of our #TaiwanModel🇹🇼-inspired #CivicAI & 6⃣Pack of Care. ▶️civic.ai/ #LLAP🖖

An honor to appear in my favorite magazine, and making the case for something deeply important to me. Thank you @TheEconomist!

The smartphone has done more damage to family and culture in just a few short years than leftism achieved in its multi-decade march through the institutions. Its danger is not in corrupting the youth through sophistry (though there’s plenty of that), but in changing the very ecology of human interaction, dulling the mind, and diminishing our capacity for love, marriage, and family life.

Cool opportunity to collaborate with @OpenAI: openai.com/form/economic-res…

With AI, the fact collector and checker tune the models and editors train the models. @CJP_2029 can become India's editor and critic with digital public problem finding and collaborative solving. Follow @audreyt, @g0vtw, @PluralityInst, @glenweyl, @VitalikButerin, @RadxChange.

Que honor!

This is some of the most competent and admirable people I know doing something incredibly important and ambitious with a clear ethical framework. I can't wait to see what they achieve!

Go @divyasiddarth go!

Read @Pontifex’s encyclical, the most important document for a broad audience on AI thus far. There is much more it could have done and it misses on several things but I thank God for giving us this gift.

I am not Catholic — I’m an evangelical — but I am grateful to @Pontifex Pope Leo XIV for Magnifica Humanitas. It is a Catholic document, but its questions about truth, work, human dignity and war belong to us all. There are aspects I see very differently, and others where I find much to admire. We are in the middle of history, not at its end, and this is the start of a conversation — one the Pope of the Catholic Church meaningfully moved along today. I especially commend my friends at @AnthropicAI for showing up in person, and Chris Olah in particular, for welcoming the perspectives of communities of faith, including evangelicals, with open arms and an open mind. I am more optimistic than most. I believe we are going to build a profoundly beautiful, amazing future for the world. It is, however, a choice. We must build it.

Another wonderful contribution to the discussion of AI's future by the Faith Family and Technology Network, especially led by the brilliant Waleed Kadous, on the "missing middle" in @AnthropicAI Institute's analysis of social impacts of AI: faithfamilytech.org/fftn-blo…

Is democracy the best form of governance? Or is it just the best system we have learned to defend? Questions worth debating: Does majority rule create legitimacy? Are voters informed enough? Do media and algorithms distort consent? Could better systems outperform democracy in some cases? What’s your take? Defend it, challenge it, or propose something better. @curtis_yarvin @glenweyl

Some preliminary thoughts on "Magnifica humanitas," the Pope's upcoming encyclical on the care of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, to be released at the Vatican on May 25. First, AI has been a concern of the Holy Father since at least the beginning of his pontificate, mentioned several times early on in his papacy. Just a few days ago, he established a new papal commission, bridging several dicasteries, to address this topic; and he also mentioned the topic in his recent address for the World Day of Communications. So the topic is not a surprise. The question will be: what other topics will be included: workers rights? labor unions? capitalism more broadly? Second, as someone who studied mathematics, Pope Leo XIV has perhaps a firmer grasp on this issue than some might imagine of a pope. Third, that the Holy Father will personally present the document on May 25 in the Paul VI Aula (where the Synod convened) is highly unusual. To me (and I have no inside information on this, nor have I read the document) it may indicate the Holy Father's deep personal interest in the topic, and a desire to ensure that the media "get it." Pope Leo is an expert communicator. Fourth, the Vatican has been providing guidance on this topic, in both formal and informal ways, to those who work in this field for some years, and has a surprising number of respected experts (theological and technical) in their orbit. Not long ago, at a meeting of the Dicastery for Communication, we heard from one and I was stunned by the breadth of his knowledge (at least to this neophyte). Fifth, the encyclical was signed (and therefore will be formally dated) on the 135th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," Pope Leo XIII's groundbreaking encyclical on labor, workers' rights, unions and many other social issues, which set the stage for the modern movement of social justice in the church. Pope Leo XII is seen as the father of the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching. There were many who believed that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost took the name "Leo" at his election as pope (his first decision after saying "yes" to his election) as a nod to this champion of social justice and workers' rights. Finally, like "Laudato Si," which recast the issue of climate change as not simply a scientific and social one, but a spiritual one, "Magnifica humanitas" may do the same for AI, helping the church and the world see this pressing topic from a spiritual vantage point and also, as "Laudato Si" did, in a systematic way. And, as an important aside, an encyclical is one of the very highest levels of church teaching. All in all, by any measure, an exciting new encyclical to read, study and pray over!

The principles of ⿻Plurality are the rich garden soil of our #CivicAI & 6⃣Pack of Care. This #TaiwanModel🇹🇼-inspired approach to AI governance can help revitalise democracy, too! Learn about @takahiroanno’s🔽 work & let’s #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together. economist.com/asia/2026/05/1…

Mandatory pre-deployment AI safety testing is a overwhelmingly popular with Americans across the political spectrum. But especially Trump/MAGA voters! From @TheElizMitchell and my colleagues at @FamStudies: 90% of Trump voters support pre-deployment vetting of AI models 👇

I love this project, really bringing major democratic innovation to mainstream politics.

A big day for me. The final copy of my forthcoming book,“American Odyssey,” was transmitted to the printer this morning. I began writing this book on December 13. Not even six months later, we squeaked under the deadline for its scheduled publication date on July 21. The cover is below, along with a link to the book @C_and_C_Books. Add the code AMODYSSEY20 for a 20% discount. The jacket photo was taken just two weeks ago in the Agora of Athens. Altogether an amazing several weeks, and a very fruitful several months. creedandculture.com/books/am…