Edition 023: This Belongs to Everyone
I do not have the answers... No one can, alone. When Pope Leo wrote his encyclical on artificial intelligence this spring, the part that stayed with me was the insistence that the work of governing these technologies belongs to everyone... The questions worth asking are questions about what we owe each other, and those have never belonged to specialists.
Edition 020: The Judgment
Edition 020 pivots from the book's analysis of systems to the culture underneath them. Pope Leo's AI encyclical named the belief the book has been tracing: A person's value does not depend on what they produce. A culture that cannot grant the full weight of a life to the people its systems are built from has revealed what it was never able to see. The rebuttal worried about fairness to the machine, not the people it discards.