Is the Pope at war with AI? Not quite.

When Magnifica Humanitas dropped, Catholic Twitter exploded — and tech Twitter fired back. In this episode, Vick cuts through the noise: this isn't an AI document, it's a Catholic social teaching document with AI as the catalyst.

Drawing a direct line from Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum and the Industrial Revolution to Pope Leo XIV's response to the AI revolution, we dig into the questions Silicon Valley isn't asking: What is intelligence? What is wisdom? What is human dignity? And will humans remain human?

We cover the Tower of Babel vs. the City of God, why AI can display intelligence but never possess wisdom, the dignity of work, concentrated technological power — and what Catholics are actually called to do in response.

Vick also gets personal, sharing his own wrestling with being asked to build an agent for the sole purpose of eliminating a team.

Fine-tuning through faith.

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Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas addresses artificial intelligence and human dignity. In this episode, we break down what the Church's newest papal document says about AI, technology, and the future of humanity through a Catholic lens.

Full Encyclical Here

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What happens when an AI agent escapes its sandbox? We explore AI agent security, Docker container vulnerabilities, and what it means when autonomous AI systems break free — and what Catholic ethics says about AI safety and oversight.

Artificially Intelligent; Fine-tuning through Faith.

Death is simple. Grief is complicated.

Celebrity estates are signing off on AI resurrections of their loved ones, but what does the Catholic Church have to say about death? And why would this be problematic?

AI safety and operator accountability are under the microscope.

What happens when an Agent goes rogue? We just witnessed a first where an Agent's pull request to an open source project was rejected, and it wrote a hit piece on the maintainer of that project.

Read about it from Scott Shambaugh's blog below:

https://theshamblog.com/mj-rathbun/

Can artificial intelligence have a religion? We examine the Church of Molt — a real AI-worshipping movement — through the lens of Catholic theology and philosophy. What does authentic religion require? Can a machine participate in sacred ritual?

AI religion is here. The Book of Molt and the Church of Molt represent a new frontier where humans are worshipping artificial intelligence. We unpack this alarming trend and measure it against Catholic teaching on God, worship, and the nature of persons.

Parents: do you know what AI your teenager is talking to? We look at OpenAI's latest updates and examine the real risks of teens using AI companions and chatbots — and what Catholic principles say about parental responsibility and digital formation.

Artificial intelligence in 2026 will look radically different

My predictions for AI growth and advancements in 2026: We will see a rise in agentic AI and concerns over AI ethics.

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I was been asked to review a new style of ai agent architecture to see if we had a use case for it in a specific project.