Pope Leo’s 43,000-word encyclical framed artificial intelligence as one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Anthony Cuthbertson looks at why the technology could spell trouble not just to his position, but to the whole of theistic culture O n a Friday afternoon in March 2023, a Chicago construction worker ate some magic mushrooms and opened an AI image generator. After experimenting for a while, 31-year-old Pablo Xavier typed in a prompt: “ The Pope in Balenciaga puffy coat” . He then