Est. MMXXV · Vatican City · AI · Ethics · Future
Where two thousand years of sacred wisdom interrogates the most disruptive technology humanity has ever built.
// About This Site
Vatican City is 44 hectares. It houses the oldest continuous institution in Western civilization. And it has been thinking about the soul longer than Silicon Valley has existed.
Now the Vatican has entered the AI conversation — publishing ethics frameworks, granting audiences to tech CEOs, and wrestling with what it means to be human in an age of machines.
This blog covers all of it. From papal encyclicals on AI to the geopolitics of an 800-person sovereign state navigating a technological revolution it never asked for.
// What We Cover
Official statements, frameworks, and the Vatican's evolving position on artificial intelligence and its governance.
How Catholic moral theology applies to AI alignment, consciousness, and the ethics of intelligent systems.
The Vatican's unique role as a diplomatic actor in global AI governance — from the G7 to the UN.
Deep dives into papal encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, and magisterial teaching relevant to technology.
The Vatican's long history with science — from Galileo to genomics — and what it tells us about AI.
How Catholic universities, institutions, and communities around the world are engaging with AI.
// Latest Dispatches
The Pontifical Academy for Life published a framework that Silicon Valley quietly adopted. Nobody talks about it.