{"id":24317,"date":"2026-10-02T06:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24317"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:59:57","slug":"the-pope-on-ai-art-and-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/the-pope-on-ai-art-and-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope on AI, art, and humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what this will translate into, concretely, but I&#8217;m glad to see his holiness raise the topic:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pontifex\/status\/2105983638147891490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what this will translate into, concretely, but I&#8217;m glad to see his holiness raise the topic: In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}