Can a Eucharistic vision of technological power become a practical blueprint for AI governance? Episode 73 examines three challenges facing From Consumption to Communion: translating theological concepts for pluralistic audiences, integrating mythic and systems language more smoothly, and converting constitutional principles into operational designs. The critique is constructive but also requires qualification: open source, federated learning, and technical decentralization do not by themselves guarantee communion, justice, or human flourishing. Read More
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Episode 72: Debate | Whom Does Your AI Serve? Can moral allegiance redirect artificial intelligence—or must we first change the game that governs it?
Can artificial intelligence be governed by moral allegiance, or must we first change the competitive system that rewards acceleration and punishes restraint? Episode 72 debates whether a Eucharistic reordering of technological power can redirect AI toward human flourishing—or whether only treaties, liability rules, ecological limits, and hard restrictions can prevent cognitive enclosure and civilizational wasteland. Read More
Episode 71: Deep Dive | The Danger of Perfectly Aligned AI – Why technical obedience cannot protect us when the system itself serves extraction
A perfectly aligned AI may still serve a predatory institution. Episode 71 examines why technical obedience is insufficient without examining allegiance: the deeper economic, political, and civilizational order that technology reproduces. Moving through the Grail and Lance, Moloch and Mammon, institutional autopoietization, cognitive enclosure, and the Eucharistic inversion of power, this Deep Dive asks whether AI enlarges human capacity—or quietly consumes it. Read More