What Separates Man from Machine: Magnifica Humanitas

This is the reading- https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html We will discuss the encyclical from the current Pope about Generative Artificial Intelligence. If you are not religious, this text is still relevant, as it is a work of moral philosophy which can be read from the standpoint of a secular humanist as well. The text is a good point to jump off from and discuss the following questions- Do we owe moral consideration to machines? How can we implant moral sensibility within machines so that they view humans with moral consideration and what moral programming should we encode them with (consequentialist, deontological)? If the political project has been to enable the good life for humans, how will that change now that machines…