What the Vatican Got Right About AI—EP42
Podcast: AI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan LuckettPublished On: Wed May 27 2026
Description: On May 15th, 2026, the Vatican released a fifty-page document on artificial intelligence that almost nobody in the tech industry is talking about. It is not a sermon. It is not a moral lecture. It is a precise, unflinching analysis of who controls AI, who bears the cost when it fails, and why the current structure of power in the digital economy is producing exactly the kind of injustice that no amount of corporate ethics statements will fix. It calls out algorithmic discrimination by name. It declares that lethal decisions cannot be delegated to machines. It introduces the concept of data colonialism and names it for what it is. And it makes an argument about AI alignment that the biggest labs in the world have been unwilling to make about themselves. Today on AI Ascent, we go inside Magnifica Humanitas — and we find out why the most honest thing written about AI governance in 2026 came not from Washington, not from Silicon Valley, but from Rome.
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