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god in the machine



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Instead of blanket-dismissing tech entrepreneurs or wholesale manifesting a god in the machine, Pope Leo has sought a careful, studied, moral middle ground: one that encourages technological progress but upholds human dignity above all.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

We’ve been the god in the machine all along.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

And yet we continue to dream that some deus in machina, a god in the machine, could appear as if by magic to save us from ourselves.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Myth, if any, had to be subject to rigorous updates, and there was obviously no god in the machine.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2019

Reveal the god in the machine and the mystery dies.

From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle


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