Excerpt from a series on the Archdiocese of Toronto website by Matthew Harvey Sanders, creator of Magisterium AI, and a guest for the Vatican launch of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas. The temptation is to outsource not just the task but the thinking, to stop verifying, to stop forming our own view. The Pope warns AI can simulate understanding without understanding anything it produces, so a confident answer is not the same thing as a true one. Dario Amodei, who leads the AI laboratory Anthropic, warns that AI could eliminate “half of all entry-level white-collar jobs” within five years... The Pope (warns) of a society that exposes many “to forced inactivity... resulting in human and cultural impoverishment.”