The last Apostolic
Exhortation by Pope Francis, entitled Laudate Deum and published
on October 4, 2023, dedicates a chapter to the technocratic paradigm that has
been imposed throughout the world, to which the following definition applies: a
certain way of understanding human life and activity [that] has gone awry, to
the serious detriment of the world around us. It refers mainly to the degradation of the environment in relation to
climate change of anthropogenic origin, although the phrase used can be interpreted
broadly, since there are many more ways to degrade the environment, in addition
to releasing gases into the atmosphere.
But it doesn't
stop there. The next paragraph says this:
21. In recent years, we have been able to confirm this diagnosis, even as we have witnessed a new advance of the above paradigm. Artificial intelligence and the latest technological innovations start with the notion of a human being with no limits, whose abilities and possibilities can be infinitely expanded thanks to technology. In this way, the technocratic paradigm monstrously feeds upon itself.
