PRE-ORDER — The Truth and The Lie: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI

POPE LEO XIV'S LANDMARK ENCYCLICAL on Artificial Intelligence boldly announces humanity’s “magnificence,” but what makes us magnificent?  One of the positive fruits of the AI revolution is that it’s compelling thoughtful people around the world to ask the RBQs (really big questions), and What does it mean to be human? is at the top of the list.

Drawing from all the major Vatican pronouncements on AI, including Leo’s Magnificent Humanity, and mining the wisdom of philosophers and theologians (both ancient and new), poets, journalists, movie-makers, and tech-commentators, this book will root you in the Truth of your embodied personhood and expose the Lie of disembodiment that is threatening to destroy our magnificent humanity at its foundations.  AI is not the enemy here, but we must keep the incarnate Truth of our humanity at the center of the conversation if we are to benefit from the astounding opportunities it offers us, without forfeiting what it means to be human along the way.

By reading this book you will:

• gain the wisdom needed to benefit from the promise of AI while avoiding its peril;
• recognize the true needs of your heart and how to avoid AI’s illusory satisfactions;
• encounter the meaning and “magnificence” of your own humanity and rejoice in its beauty;
• discover the stunning wonder of the impossible miracle that you even exist;
• understand God’s eternal plan for your life and the universe like never before;learn how to dance with joy even in the midst of your sufferings;identify the greatest snow job in history and how to be liberated from it;see how God’s been wooing you in all that you’ve loved and desired throughout your life;
• find the way home to the validation and love for which you have always longed.