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Patrick Chastenet
Professor emeritus at the University of Bordeaux, author notably of Introduction to Jacques Ellul (2019) and À contre-courant (2023).
Published on June 6, 2026 at 4:47 p.m.
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For Patrick Chastenet, the encyclical Magnifica humanitas is not a breaking text regarding the Church’s relationship to technical progress, since it has always welcomed these innovations with enthusiasm.
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The encyclical of Pope Leo At the risk, according to him, of not taking enough into account the existential threat that AI would represent.
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“Advance technique without causing the heart to regress. » This proposal alone could sum up the ambition of the recent encyclical on artificial intelligence (AI), which is said to constitute “a valuable aid which requires attention”.
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