Daron Acemoglu identifies the flawed and dangerous assumptions about AI that are guiding the technology’s design.
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May 28, 2026
Daron Acemoglu
Pope Leo XIV has made waves with his first encyclical, in which he describes the development and deployment of new AI tools as a profound threat to human dignity. If anything, he has not gone far enough in pressing the question of what the technology is being designed to do.
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