Podcast: Silas Mähner, Zak Slayback, and Edmund Mitchell unpack Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and what the age of AI means for Catholic business.

Pope Leo XIV's "AI Encyclical" is NOT about AI. It’s a direct, uncompromising challenge to how Catholic entrepreneurs—and the modern world—do business, invest, and treat data.

In this crucial episode, venture capitalist Zak Slayback and Catholic tech creator Edmund Mitchell unpack Magnifica Humanitas, revealing the Catholic vision for the age of artificial intelligence. They dive into the most controversial takes that tech founders and investors are missing:

The Data Crisis: Why the Universal Destination of Goods applies to intellectual property, patents, and data—a radical condemnation of the "extraction economy" and a direct challenge to every startup's business model.
The Investment Trap:Th e Church’s clear distinction: finance for its own sake vs. finance aimed at meaningful work and human development. If your investment strategy only prioritizes ROI, you might be falling into a moral trap.
The Technocratic Paradigm: Why the Pope explicitly rejects Universal Basic Income (UBI) and instead calls for more sustainable technology to solve resource consumption issues.
Just War & Autonomous Weapons: The Church’s challenging perspective on why the conditions for a "just war" are virtually impossible today.

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