Daniel Dobrygowski

VATICAN CITY: On May 25th, the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, will be presented at the Vatican. The photo is part of a collection of photos of Pope Leo XIV. Photo by: Rocco Spaziani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Can the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas Rally Support for Technology Governance?

Mike Bennett

Nicole Bennett

Repeating image of skulls with increasing doubling, blurring, ghosting, pixelation, and horizontal glitching.

Big Tech is Becoming the Executor of the Dead

José Marichal

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical titled 'Magnifica humanitas' (Magnificent Humanity), in the Vatican on May 25, 2026, a call to remain human in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Pope Leon XIV appealed for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of truth, dignity of work, social justice, and peace. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images)

The Pope’s Encyclical on AI Was Important—Now Comes the Hard Part

Justin Hendrix

Justin Hendrix, left; Dr. Ruha Benjamin, center; Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, right. Photo by Brandon Forester, MediaJustice.

The Fight for Civil Rights in the Age of AI

Paul Nemitz

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Doublespeak in OpenAI’s ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age’

Laura MacCleery

A man sits on a bench in a memorial, set for the school children who were killed during a strike on a school in southern town of Minab on Feb. 28, in northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

There Are No Machines of Loving Grace Without People

Madeline Batt

The Problem with AI in War is Much Bigger Than Anthropic’s Fight with the DoD

James Ball

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth follows President Donald Trump to board Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute Reverberates in European Capitals

Eryk Salvaggio

A coffin is carried during the funeral of mostly children killed in what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike Feb. 28 at a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency via AP)

America's First War in Age of LLMs Exposes Myth of AI Alignment

The Parliament of Birds, an 18th-century oil painting by Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton Wikimedia

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI

James O’Sullivan

Building blocks are overlayed with digital squares that highlight people living their day-to-day lives through windows. Some of the squares are accompanied by cursors.

How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality

Eli Lehrer

A detailed digital collage inspired by the aesthetic of medieval manuscript illustrations, depicts a vibrant scene of construction workers building a structure. The traditional elements, such as figures in traditional Persian gowns, wooden ladders, ropes, and woven sacks, are interwoven with modern technological motifs like circuit boards, QR codes, and cloud icons. Bright, glowing, golden networks of interconnected nodes and symbols of digital technology overlay the scene, blending the past and present. On the left, Arabic calligraphy is imprinted onto the paper. The composition uses contrasting textures and colours to juxtapose and interweave the themes and eras.

Detail from "Who is AI Made Of," an artwork by Shady Sharify. 

AI Safety Requires Pluralism, Not a Single Moral Operating System

Renee Black

Three groups of icons representing people have shapes traveling between them and a page in the middle of the image. The page is a simple rectangle with straight lines representing data. The shapes traveling towards the page are irregular and in squiggly bands.

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