A Final Reckoning on AI?

In his first press conference following his election to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV remarked on the need to develop an ethics of artificial intelligence. He likened AI to “another industrial revolution” and posited that it poses “new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.” Recently, his remarks found support from a more mundane and unlikely source: Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning. The discourse on AI is largely defined by the two poles of ludditism and technological progressivism, but The Final Reckoning restrains us from their puritanical impulses and instead offers another way to approach this new development: virtuous pragmatism.