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ai/2026-07-13
Disarm the MachineFILE 00118K

Disarm the Machine

Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas declares the centuries-old doctrine of just war 'outdated,' and ties the declaration directly to autonomous weapons systems. He then coins a phrase for what should replace it: disarming AI. Not rejecting technology. Freeing it from the logic of armed competition that has already captured the labs, the budgets, and the language.

AI GovernanceMilitary AIJust War
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ai/2026-05-25
Nehemiah Had a WhitepaperFILE 00218K

Nehemiah Had a Whitepaper

On May 15, 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas, a 38,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence. Buried inside the Catholic Social Doctrine is a framework for decentralization that predates Bitcoin by 130 years, arrives at the same structural conclusions, and goes further than most crypto whitepapers in diagnosing what concentrated digital power actually does to people.

AI GovernanceDecentralizationCatholic Social Doctrine
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